What Statistic Would Ordinarily Be Used to Show That a College

question 11

Multiple Choice

What statistic would ordinarily be used to show that a college admissions test predicts freshman year GPA?

• A) mean
• B) standard deviation
• C) t-test
• D) correlation coefficient

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