Which of the Following Statements About the Spearman Rank-Correlation Coefficient $\rho$

question 158

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Spearman rank-correlation coefficient is true?

• A) It is equal to the Pearson correlation coefficient of the ranks of the data.
• B) The population Spearman correlation coefficient is labeled \(\rho\)_s.
• C) Values near +1 point to an uphill relationship between the two variables.
• D) All of these choices are true.

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