On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:52 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure if this is a general/fixed bias in the spearman > estimator or if it's just a function of the covMat I randomly chose. > Prof. Dalgaard and many others on this list must know.
To somewhat answer myself, I restricted my attention to 2x2 random normals and played around with variations of this script, using standard normals for the marginals: ###################### library(MASS) x <- seq(-1, 1, length.out = 1000) bias <- numeric(length(x)) n <- 100 pb <- txtProgressBar(0, length(x)) for(i in seq_along(x)) { rands <- mvrnorm(n, c(0,0), matrix(c(1, x[i],x[i],1),2), empirical = TRUE) bias[i] <- cor(rands, method = "s")[2] - cor(rands, method = "p")[2] # Change "s" -> "k" for kendall's tau below if(!(i %% 50)) setTxtProgressBar(pb, i) } plot(x, bias, type = "l", xlab = "True Correlation", ylab = "Est. Bias: Spearman - Pearson") ####################### # For n <- 100 > summary(bias) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. -0.1112000 -0.0186000 -0.0007219 -0.0007062 0.0172600 0.1177000 > summary(abs(bias)) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.000000 0.008928 0.017900 0.024240 0.035650 0.117700 # For n <- 10000 > summary(bias) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. -2.642e-02 -1.272e-02 -5.491e-04 -8.178e-05 1.277e-02 2.372e-02 > summary(abs(bias)) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.000000 0.006904 0.012750 0.011840 0.016490 0.026420 where the general trend is sinusoidal with zeros at x = -1, 0, 1. The sinusoid is more definite for large n, but has less amplitude. I then moved to kendall's tau[0] which gives a very different shape (sort of like nike swoosh, but also an odd function). Notably the estimated difference is of a different order of magnitude here, even for a large sample: # n <- 50 > summary(bias) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. -0.2966000 -0.1490000 0.0047720 0.0004882 0.1479000 0.3003000 > summary(abs(bias)) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.00000 0.08273 0.14850 0.13690 0.19210 0.30030 # n <- 5000 > summary(bias) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. -2.131e-01 -1.525e-01 0.000e+00 8.379e-05 1.531e-01 2.137e-01 > summary(abs(bias)) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.00000 0.08542 0.15290 0.13640 0.19550 0.21370 which seems to put me at odds with Prof Therneau's pronouncement [1] that spearman and kendall are basically the same for large samples (though I'm not sure if n in their discussion is observation dimension or sample size) Hope this is of interest to someone, Michael [1] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e17/devel/12/06/1434.html [0] Much slower so I'll give a dput here: n <- 5000 dput(bias) c(0, 0.0379451874358857, 0.052342945385874, 0.0640785709093772, 0.072964986590912, 0.0792379195759072, 0.0858528409585821, 0.0934189925873063, 0.0987845440960066, 0.103788103206227, 0.106233070598104, 0.112044791340651, 0.115695599900761, 0.120068472873754, 0.123673832344046, 0.128009737923561, 0.127985731520679, 0.13220481373552, 0.135410253221816, 0.138467183006171, 0.13961445085814, 0.14122325101657, 0.142922789322629, 0.146233529869137, 0.150125186598881, 0.152141108181596, 0.154969352228804, 0.154991755107779, 0.159098814918139, 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