When Only Ordinal-Level Data Are Available, Spearman's Rank Correlation Rather

question 1

True/False

When only ordinal-level data are available, Spearman's rank correlation rather than the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient must be used to analyze the association between two variables.

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