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When we have a relationship that is continually rising, but the line showing the relationship is not necessarily straight, we call this a _______ relationship.
 
  a. linear
  b. reclining
  c. bivariate
  d. monotonic

Question 2

When the data are in the form of ranks we
 
  a. need a special formula that Spearman derived.
  b. can just apply the standard formula to the ranks.
  c. need to convert the ranks to raw scores before computing the correlation.
  d. cannot do anything with the data.

Question 3

If the correlation between two variables is .76, and the sample size is large, we can conclude that
 
  a. there is 76 of a relationship between the two variables.
  b. there is a strong positive relationship between the two variables.
  c. there is no relationship between the two variables.
  d. both a and b

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