When Considering Nonmetric Correlation, as a Rule of Thumb, Is

question 57

Multiple Choice

When considering nonmetric correlation, as a rule of thumb, is to be preferred when a large number of cases fall into a relatively small number of categories (thereby leading to a large number of ties) .

• A) Spearman's rho
• B) Pearson product moment correlation
• C) chi- square
• D) Kendall's tau

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