What Does the Statistic R² represent

question 4

Multiple Choice

What does the statistic r² represent?

• A) What would happen if the variable were present at twice the levels found
• B) The chances that the variables are perfectly correlated
• C) The proportion of variation in one variable that is accounted for by variation in the other variable, and vice versa
• D) What the correlation coefficient would be if the sample size were twice as large

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