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Peer reviewedWainer, Howard; Thissen, David – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
A class of naive estimators of correlation was tested for robustness, accuracy, and efficiency against Pearson's r, Tukey's r, and Spearman's r. It was found that this class of estimators seems to be superior, being less affected by outliers, reasonably efficient, and frequently more easily calculated. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Goodness of Fit, Nonparametric Statistics
