What's the difference between spearman and spearmen?
Spearman
Definition:
(n.) One who is armed with a spear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.
(2) (iii) Spearman rank correlations and multiple regression analyses indicated associations of allele frequencies and genetic diversity with climatic and vegetation factors.
(3) The staff pooled ranking had a Spearman rank correlation, r = .70, with resident overall performance upon the ACR Inservice Examination.
(4) In a group of 122 matched samples of saliva and plasma, there was a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.867 and a Spearman rank correlation coefficient of 0.869.
(5) Spearman correlations between assays indicated that RIA results correlate significantly with all other assays.
(6) Good correlation with final deformity (Spearman rho = 0.78) was obtained when the hips were ranked in terms of a new cumulative overpressure index Pc, defined as a time-pressure product involving years of pressure exposure beyond a 2 MPa pressure damage level.
(7) Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.
(8) Spearman rbos between the questionnaire responses and relative hand proficiency were .733, .689, and .619.
(9) Spearman rank correlations with 4 EEG parameters--total slow waves, alpha and beta waves, and dominant alpha frequency--were computed for all 18 SCAG items and for 'overall impression of patient' as well as for 5 SCAG factors.
(10) A linear regression analysis on the behavioral and electrophysiological data showed a negative correlation (Spearman rank correlation coefficient rs = -0.705; P less than 0.001) between percent of conditioned responses in the shuttle box and threshold frequency necessary to induce LTP in gyrus dentatus in response to tetanic stimulation of the perforant path.
(11) The aa magnetic index over the period 1868-89 and concurrent visual hallucinatory activity were found to co-vary (Spearman coefficient = .64; P less than .05).
(12) The Spearman Rank coefficient and the t-test showed (at p less than 0.05 and p less than 0.10 respectively) that there was a statistically significant difference between one pairing of the scores from the three markers.
(13) Spearman correlations also indicated that a "monitoring" or information-gathering coping style was associated with more anticipatory anxiety, and more nausea before and during chemotherapy.
(14) Through Spearman Rank test SD was related to Apache II score, admission state anxiety, satisfactory sedation, days of ICU stay and age respectively.
(15) There was a strong and statistically significant correlation between milk and urine iodine concentrations in the seven towns in February (Spearman's r = 0.79, p = 0.04).
(16) The correlation coefficient (Spearman's) for EC50 versus potency at the frog neuromuscular junction was -0.73, indicating innate differences between Torpedo and frog receptors.
(17) The indices obtained correlated well with cineangiographic grading on a three-point scale (Spearman rank correlation coefficient: rs = 0.9).
(18) In ulcerative colitis, luminol chemiluminescence correlated with microscopic inflammation (Spearman's p = 0.74, P = 0.0001) and was decreased by sodium azide (-89%, P less than 0.05), taurine (-31%, P less than 0.05), catalase (-23%, P less than 0.05), and dimethyl sulfoxide (-29%, P less than 0.05).
(19) A matrix of Spearman's rank correlation coefficients among these measures demonstrated a pattern of interdependencies, which we analysed further by principal components analysis.
(20) While group medians of mitogen-induced in vitro synthesis of IL4 and IFN-gamma were similar, release of these lymphokines correlated inversely in patients (Spearman's rho = -0.84).
Spearmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Spearman
Example Sentences:
(1) The percent of validated cases (the validation rate) was correlated with number of cases validated (estimated Spearmen correlation coefficient was .84 with p less than .0001), but not with the number of cases reported.
(2) Two of the test formats correlated significantly with a Spearmen rank, r = .50 or better (P less than .025) with a ranking based upon total score on the American College of Radiology Inservice Examination.
(3) All three test formats had a Spearmen rank r = .50 or better (P less than .05) when compared with pooled ranking performed by the staff radiologists.