Spearman's Correlation

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This is an alternative to Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation. It has the same basic interpretation, computing a statistics in the range of -1 to 1, except that the calculation is based on the ranks of the data rather than the actual data and is thus less susceptible to outliers (and thus also less likely to represent the true nature of a correlation in the absence of outliers).