The Annals of Statistics publishes research papers of the highest quality reflecting the many facets of contemporary statistics. Primary emphasis is placed on importance and originality, not on ...

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 ...

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For 2 × k contingency tables, we consider the statistic r*, the maximal correlation between the row and column variables, where the maximum is taken over all possible sets of scores (or "scales" or ...

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