A Hypothesis Test Is Conducted at the 5 Percent Level

question 43

Multiple Choice

A hypothesis test is conducted at the 5 percent level of significance to test whether the population correlation is zero. If the sample consists of 25 observations and the correlation coefficient is 0.60, then the computed test statistic would be:

• A)2.071.
• B)1.960.
• C)3.597.
• D)1.645.

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