Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0321836960
ISBN 13: 978-0-32183-696-0

Chapter 13 - Nonparametric Statistics - 13-6 Rank Correlation - Basic Skills and Concepts - Page 672: 1

Answer

No.

Work Step by Step

The methods of the section 10-3 are based on linear correlation, but in this section the methods do not require a linear relationship, hence the answer is no. Hence the methods of this section are not suitable for a non-linear relationship but the regression equation is.
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