When Attempting to Assess the Correlation Between Two Distributions, X

question 93

True/False

When attempting to assess the correlation between two distributions, X and Y, if either of the two variables fail to contain the high or low end of its distribution, the resulting coefficient will tend to over-estimate the true correlation in the population.

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