Re: Using correlation coefficient

generic_at_arigatoo.net
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 08:58:00 -0800

> Are you using ranks because that's all you have? Or are you
converting
> actual scores to ranks? If the latter, you could well be better off
> using the actual data. Ranking throws away information.
>
That makes sense that rankings throw information away. I used the
ranking because the raw data was incompatible (one was based on
predicted raw values, the other was the compilation of many predictions
based on rank only).

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