Trivariate analysis of soil ranking-correlated characteristics and its application to probabilistic stability assessments in geotechnical engineering problems

An important issue in the probabilistic prediction modelling of multivariate soil properties (usually including cohesion, friction angle, and unit weight) is the measurement of dependence structure among these properties. The use of Pearson's correlation as a dependence measure has several pitfalls; therefore, it may not be appropriate to use probabilistic prediction models in geotechnical engineering problems based on this correlation. As an...