Of the following measures of association for ordinal data, a positive value for this statistic
allows the researcher to conclude only that “as X increases, Y does not decrease” rather
than that “as X increases, Y also increases.”
a. Somer’s D
b. Spearman’s rho
c. Kendall’s tau
d. gamma
D
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