Suppose That Ten New Smart Phone Models Were Evaluated by Two

question 8

Multiple Choice

Suppose that ten new smart phone models were evaluated by two consumer electronics magazines (Popular Electronics and Electronics Now) from 1 (best) to 10 (worst) as shown below. Why is the Spearman's rho more appropriate than the correlation coefficient for these data?

• A) The relationship is nonlinear.
• B) The data are ordinal.
• C) The data are not paired.
• D) There is one extreme outlier.
• E) Both outliers and bends in the data make the correlation coefficient difficult to interpret.

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