An Appropriate Correlation Coefficient to Show the Relationship Between Two

question 20

Multiple Choice

An appropriate correlation coefficient to show the relationship between two artificially dichotomous variables is the

• A)biserial correlation.
• B)phi coefficient.
• C)tetrachoric correlation.
• D)point biserial correlation.

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