Assertion: correlation | /r/CapableOf | assess linear relationships
Facets:
value: between variables
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Spearman correlation between two variables is equal to the Pearson correlation between the rank values of those two variables; while Pearson's correlation assesses linear relationships, Spearman's correlation assesses monotonic relationships (whether linear or not).
text: However, correlation coefficients like Spearman and Pearson assume a linear relationship between variables.