Solved – Spearman’s correlation coefficient when one variable is not normally distributed

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Question: If you have two variables that one of them is normally distributed and the other is not normally distributed, should you use Spearman's rho for the correlation?

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The question was answered here.

Short answer, it doesn't really matter. Both Spearman and Pearson's coefficients do not require normality. Spearman is more resistant to outliers though.