Aladdin wants to know if there is a relationship between the type of entrance exam completed and the graduate degree program that the student enters. He collects data from a random sample of 500 incoming UCF graduate students on the following: 1) type of graduate entrance exam completed (GRE, GMAT, MAT, other); and 2) graduate degree program the student is entering (master's, Ed.S., Ed.D., Ph.D.). Which statistical procedure is most appropriate to use to test the hypothesis?
A) Pearson correlation coefficient
B) Phi coefficient
C) Spearman or Kendall tau's correlation coefficient

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The most appropriate statistical procedure to test the hypothesis about the relationship between the type of entrance exam (a categorical variable) and the graduate degree program (another categorical variable) is Spearman or Kendall tau's correlation coefficient, as these are non-parametric tests that can handle ordinal data or non-linear relationships, which is suitable for the categorical nature of both variables in question.

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