We Can Test the Null Hypothesis That ñ = 0

question 66

True/False

We can test the null hypothesis that ñ = 0 by transforming the sample correlation
coefficient into a statistic that has a sampling distribution that closely approximates the F
distribution with k - 1 degrees of freedom.

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