When the Relationship Between Two Variables Is Monotonically Decreasing, What

question 22

Multiple Choice

When the relationship between two variables is monotonically decreasing, what might the size of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient be?

• A) -2
• B) -1
• C) 0
• D) +1

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