Author Question: When figuring a correlation coefficient, an outlier A) usually has only a small effect on the ... (Read 100 times)

mpobi80 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When figuring a correlation coefficient, an outlier

A) usually has only a small effect on the computed correlation.
B) can have an strong effect on the computed correlation.
C) generally increases the statistical power of the study.
D) can be balanced by the effects of attenuation.

Question 2

Spearman's rho handles curvilinearity in the relation between two variables by first converting all scores to

A) ranks.
B) deviation scores.
C) Z scores.
D) logs of the original scores.