A quick question on Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

[Just some guy]

Hi,

I was just wondering about spearman's rank correlation coefficient hypothesis tests - for these to be valid does the data in the sample have to be drawn from a bivariate normal distribution or does that only apply to the product moment correlation coefficient?

Cheers,
Just some guy

 

[EnumaElish]

As far as I understand, the data can be anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman's_rank_correlation_coefficient (look under "Determining significance").