Fig.1

Concept

Spearman rho

Spearman rho (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient) measures how well the relationship between two variables can be described by a monotonic function. It is like Pearson correlation, except it operates on the ranks of the values rather than the raw values.

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Spearman rho, explained · Fig. 1