In a study assessing the relationship between the number of close friends who drink alcohol regularly and the number of times a person in treatment for alcohol abuse drank alcohol after completing treatment, the appropriate correlation coefficient to calculate is:

a. Pearson's r
b. Spearman's rho
c. phi
d. eta


A

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