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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences

by M. Kraska-MIller
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
260 pages
8h 14m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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81Analysis of Data to Determine Association and Agreement
time; if the sign of the coefcient is negative, as one variable increases, the
other decreases.
Interpretation of the value of the coefcient is somewhat subjective, and one
should exercise caution in interpreting the size of the coefcient to mean statis-
tical signicance. Statistical signicance indicates retention or rejection of the
null hypothesis, whereas the size of the coefcient indicates the strength of the
correlation. The closer the coefcient is to ±1, the stronger the relationship. One
rule for interpreting the strength of a correlation is that coefcients ≥ 0.80 indi-
cate ...
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