A Pragmatic Approach to Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
β Scribed by D. GRIFFITHS
- Book ID
- 111015951
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0141-982X
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