You Can Use Pearson's Correlation Coefficient If One or More

question 67

True/False

You can use Pearson's correlation coefficient if one or more of your variables are ordinal or nominal.

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Definitions:

Sickle Cell Anemia

A genetic blood disorder characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape.

Red Blood Cells

Cells in the blood that carry oxygen to body tissues and organs through the protein hemoglobin.

Dominant-Recessive

Describes the relationship between two alleles of a gene, where the dominant allele's traits are expressed in the phenotype over the recessive allele's traits, which are masked when paired with a dominant allele.

Color Blindness

A condition characterized by the inability to see colors in a normal way, resulting from deficiencies in the color-sensing pigments in the eye.