One Formula for the Correlation Between a Continuous Variable and an Artificially

question 15

Multiple Choice

One formula for the correlation between a continuous variable and an artificially dichotomized variable is

• A)Spearman's rank order formula.
• B)the point biserial correlation.
• C)the phi coefficient.
• D)the biserial correlation.

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