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Detecting trends using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

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ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 359-362

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2001.0061

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Spearman rank correlation coefficient; trend analysis; soil; groundwater

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Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is a useful tool for exploratory data analysis in environmental forensic investigations. In this application it is used to detect monotonic trends in chemical concentration with time or space. (C) 2001 AEHS.

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