these look something like SAT total scores and, IQ scores ... but the
advice to make a plot is a good one. see what the pattern is, if any AND,
if it happens to be linear ... then the pearson r (spearman would be on the
ranks of the data) would be a reasonable index of the relationship between
the two
At 08:54 PM 11/27/99 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>I am very new to descriptive statistics and have a problem that I need
>help with.
>
>1. I have two sets of scores which are related to each other.
> SET A 1100,1040,950,1090,1050,970,900,1110,940,880
> SET B 108,128,113,103,112,119,96,103,112,92.
> My question is do I use Pearson's or Spearman's.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
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