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This tests the significance of the correlation between series of rank numbers, assigned by judges to subjects. The judges give rank numbers to the subjects and we compute:
and , the sum of squares of the differences between subjects' mean ranks and the overall mean rank. Let:
The test statistic is:
which follows the distribution with degrees of freedom.
Derek Long
2003-11-06