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Significance tables fcr the Spellman rank correlation coefficient far sample size it, at the 10 %,
I % end 0.1 %significialce!3(OEe-4tdcdtcst)andlhe2Q%,2 %and0.2 %siens/icaDce levels
(r*o- sided test)*
OJ*-sided test
It 10% 1% 0.
1
4 1.000
S 0.800 1.000
6 0.637 0.913
7 0.571 0.893 I.OCO
"8 0.524 0.833 0.
9 0.4S3 0.783 9
0.
0.455 0.745 9
0.
10
M2 0406 *
. 0.637 1.: 8
0.
14 ' 0367 0.626 8
0.77
0.341 .0J42 1
0.72
16
0317 O.SS 9
0.69
18
0.299 O
0.S20 5
0.66
20
25 0.265 0466 2
0.59
30 0.240 0.425 3
0.54
35 0.394 9
0.51
0.222
40 0.207 0.368 0
0.47
45 0.194 0.347 9
0.45
50 0.184 0.329 3
0.43
0.300 0
0.39
60 0.168
70 0.155 0.27S 4
0.36
0145 5
0.34
80 0.260
90 0.136 0.245 2
0323
ICO 0.129 0233 0-
307
20% 2% 02%
Two-sided test

1 Dau from Sachs (1954).correlation matrices are used to Study the problem of
element mobility during the retrogression of high-grade gneisses, and in Weaver ti al.
{1981), b a study of the trace clement chemistry of a highly metamorphosed
anorthositn.
It must be noted, however, that whilst the correlation matrix is a very useful device
sind correlation coefficients arc useful statistical descriptors, we must be cautious
about their use in geochemistry because of the very special nature of geochemical dau
(sec Section 2.6). As I shall show more fully below, die value of a correlation coefficient
may not be in doubt but the petrogenctic meaning ascribed to that value is open to
intciprctation.

3.6 Correlation coefficient patterns

Cox and Clifford (1982) have proposed a way of presenting correlation coefficient data
for a suite of rocks ir. a diagrammatic form. Their method, which is purely descriptive,
uses the Pearson product-momcnt coefficient of correlation ind is an attempt to utilize
and display graphically the large amount of information contained in a correlation
matrix, without resorting to plotting the enormous number of