When considering nonmetric correlation, as a rule of thumb, is to be preferred when a large number of cases fall into a relatively small number of categories (thereby leading to a large number of ties).
A) Spearman's rho
B) Pearson product moment correlation
C) chi- square
D) Kendall's tau

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Kendall's tau is preferred for nonmetric data with many ties, as it is specifically designed to handle ordinal data and ties more effectively than Spearman's rho.

When Considering Nonmetric Correlation, as a Rule of Thumb, Is