Two Variables Have a Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient of -0

question 8

Multiple Choice

Two variables have a Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of -0.9872.We can conclude from this that:

• A) the two variables are strongly correlated.
• B) there is a causal connection between the two variables.
• C) the two variables are not correlated at all.
• D) the two samples are random.

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