The Pearson and Spearman Correlation differ in that______________________________________.     the first is always positive and the second is always negative     Pearson is used with interval/ratio data whereas Spearman is used with ranked data     Only Pearson can be used with large amounts of data     The first is just the square root of the second     There are really no differences, some people just prefer one to the other

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The Pearson and Spearman Correlation differ in that______________________________________.

   

the first is always positive and the second is always negative

   

Pearson is used with interval/ratio data whereas Spearman is used with ranked data

   

Only Pearson can be used with large amounts of data

   

The first is just the square root of the second

   

There are really no differences, some people just prefer one to the other

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The person correlation is calculated when the data is quantitative i.e. measured on the scale ratio or interval.

But the rank correlation is measured when data is qualitative and measured on the ordinal scale.

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