Correlation - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorrelationRank correlation coefficients, such as Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and Kendall's rank correlation coefficient (τ)measure the extent to which, as one variable increases, the other variable tends to increase, without requiring that increase to be represented by a linear relationship. If, as the one variable increases, the other decreases, the rank correlation coefficients will be negative. It is common to regard these rank correlation coefficients as altern…