If You Wanted to Compute the Correlation Between Two Nominal-Level

question 55

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to compute the correlation between two nominal-level variables,which type of correlation should you use?

• A)point biserial
• B)phi
• C)Spearman rank
• D)Pearson

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