What Does the Correlation Coefficient Measure

question 116

Multiple Choice

What does the correlation coefficient measure

• A) the central tendency 
• B) the degree of relationship between two variables 
• C) the difference between the largest and smallest scores in a data set 
• D) the amount of variability in a data set

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