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Table 1

Result for Pearson’s correlation coefficient (ρpe) and Spearman’s rank-order correlation (ρsp) coefficient on ranked data, (Figueira et al. 2016) with ρ: correlation coefficient and its standard deviation and 95% highest posterior density (HPD) Credible Interval.

Time interval with TESS ρ 95% Sample size


ρpe ρsp ρpe ρsp
Year 1 0.989 ± 0.005 0.550 ± 0.133 [0.979 0.996] [0.287 0.791] 24
Year 2 0.848 ± 0.033 0.394 ± 0.099 [0.782 0.908] [0.196 0.578] 70
Year 3 0.520 ± 0.071 0.286 ± 0.087 [0.384 0.656] [0.120 0.456] 104
Year 4 0.331 ± 0.109 0.265 ± 0.113 [0.111 0.531] [0.043 0.486] 63
Whole sample 0.812 ± 0.026 0.444 ± 0.061 [0.764 0.862] [0.319 0.555] 171

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