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Examples where correlation and distance measures are misleading
| True rank | A1 | A2 | A3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| Gene 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| Gene 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| Spearman correlation | – | −1 | 1 | −0.5 |
| Kendall correlation | – | −1 | 1 | −0.33 |
| Spearman distance | – | 4 | 21 | 22 |
| Kendall distance | – | 999 | 0 | 666 |
| Coverage rate with top 3 | – | 1 | 0 | 0.67 |
| Coverage rate with top10 | – | 1 | 1 | 0.67 |
