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The Sample Correlation Coefficient Between X and Y Is 0

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The sample correlation coefficient between X and Y is 0.375. It has been found out that the p-value is 0.256 when testing H₀: ρ = 0 against the one-sided alternative H₁: ρ > 0. To test H₀: ρ = 0 against the two-sided alternative H₁: ρ ≠ 0 at a significance level of 0.1, the p-value is


Definitions:

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of sample values from their sample mean.

Chi-squared Test Statistic

A measure used in statistics to determine the significance of the differences between categorical variables.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, showing how data points are dispersed or spread out.

Chi-squared Probability Distribution

A distribution that represents the distribution of the sum of the squares of variables that are independent and normally distributed.

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