A Study Was Conducted on the Percent of Total Advertising

question 74

Multiple Choice

A study was conducted on the percent of total advertising dollars spent by 10 local firms for advertising in the press and on cable television. Results were ranked with a resulting sum of squared differences equal to 128. What is Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation?

• A)−0.871
• B)+0.224
• C)+0.234
• D)−0.234

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