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I was wondering if the cor.test function in R to compute Spearman’s rho is tie-corrected or not.
I couldn’t find a straight answer in the official R documentation.
An example of tie corrected Spearman is found in:
Cureton, Edward E. The average spearman rank criterion correlation
when ties are present. Psychometrika 23, no. 3 (September 1958):
271-272.
Thanks for any hint,
Mulone
The “official” documentation is the code itself. And looking there, one sees that there is provision for correction for ties through the use of
pkendall().You will also get background information at this recent posting on SO regarding the Spearman-rho and three Kendall-tau’s