Once the ranks for the two variables are found, we apply the formula for the correlation to the ranks as follows: Both Spearman’s rank and Pearson’s correlation tests share the purpose of assessing ...

Correlation coefficients are indicators of the strength of the linear relationship between two different variables, x and y. A linear correlation coefficient that is greater than zero indicates a ...

Background: Leptin is an adipocyte-secreted hormone and plays an important role in the regulation of energy homeostasis by the inhibition of food intake. Recently a positive correlation between leptin ...

A newly developed general correlation accurately predicts acidic combustion gas dewpoints to mitigate corrosion potential in pollution control and energy-recovery equipment. The correlation can ...

We analyze the Solvency II standard formula (SF) for capital risk aggregation in relation to the treatment of operational risk (OR) capital. We show that the SF implicitly assumes that the correlation ...