One Way to Handle a Situation in Which High Scores

question 40

Multiple Choice

One way to handle a situation in which high scores go with high scores and low scores with low scores but the pattern of scores is not linear is to

• A)convert all scores to Z scores before figuring the correlation coefficient.
• B)add a random variable to the presumed predictor variable.
• C)figure the Wilcoxon R.
• D)figure Spearman's rho.

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