If You Wanted to Compute the Correlation Between Two Nominal-Level

question 25

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to compute the correlation between two nominal-level variables, which type of correlation should you use?

• A) Point biserial
• B) Phi
• C) Spearman rank
• D) Pearson

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