The Coefficient of Determination Is the Percentage of Variance in One

question 10

Multiple Choice

The coefficient of determination is the percentage of variance in one variable that ______.

• A)is accounted for by the variance in the other variable
• B)matters only when the other variable is constant
• C)equals the square root of the Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient
• D)can be determined by taking the square root of the phi coefficient

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