Basebal salaries 2009. Baseball is big business, and the top salaries have become quite large. The highest salaries

(in millions of dollars per season) for some notable players since 1980 are given in the following table:

a) Kendall’s tau for these data is 0.887. What does that say about these data?

b) Based on that result, would you predict that salaries will continue to rise? Explain.

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Player Year Salary ($M) Nolan Ryan 1980 1.0 George Foster 1982 2.0 Kirby Puckett 1990 3.0 Jose Canseco 1990 4.7 Roger Clemens 1991 5.3 Ken Griffey, Jr. 1986 8.5 Albert Belle 1997 11.0 Pedro Martinez 1998 12.5 Mike Piazza 1999 12.5 Mo Vaughn 1999 13.3 Kevin Brown 1999 15.0 Carlos Delgado 2001 17.0 Alex Rodriguez 2001 22.0 Manny Ramirez 2004 22.5 Alex Rodriguez 2005 26.0 Derek Jeter 2006 20.6 Jason Giambi 2007 23.4 Alex Rodriguez 2009 33.0