When One Set of Measures Is in Interval Form, and the Other

question 87

Multiple Choice

When one set of measures is in interval form, and the other in ordinal, then the appropriate correlational technique should be

• A) the Pearson r
• B) the t test
• C) the Spearman r
• D) the coefficient of determination

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