The Spearman Rank-Correlation Is a Nonparametric Test That 1) Uses

question 59

True/False

The Spearman rank-correlation is a nonparametric test that 1) uses the directions of differences observed in a matched-pairs sample to determine whether the relative frequency distributions of two statistical populations are identical to or different from one another and 2) determines whether a sample comes from a population with a specified median.

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