A monte carlo approach to correlational spuriousness and ratio variablesFootnote^†

^†An earlier version of this paper was presented ar thc ar~nual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Boston, 1980 (April). The authors would like to thank Richard D. Warren for his early support in pursuing this area, Karl F. Schuessler for his idea to begin this research and Derek F. Stubbs and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on the paper.

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