Spearman's rho for zero-inflated count data: formulation and attainable bounds

2025/03/17 by Arends, Jasper, Lyu, Guanjie, Mesfioui, Mhamed +2 · 1 citation
#62H20 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistics Theory (math.ST)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.13148

Abstract

We propose an alternative formulation of Spearman's rho for zero-inflated count data. The formulation yields an estimator with explicitly attainable bounds, facilitating interpretation in settings where the standard range [-1,1] is no longer informative.

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