How does the Spearman rank correlation deal with categorical variables?
- It assigns a numerical value to each category
- It can't handle categorical variables
- It groups categorical variables together
- It transforms categorical variables into ranks
The Spearman rank correlation transforms categorical variables into ranks, which allows it to handle both continuous and ordinal (a type of categorical variable) data.
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