The Relationship Between a Correlation Coefficient and a Confidence Interval

question 20

Multiple Choice

The relationship between a correlation coefficient and a confidence interval for the population correlation Þ"rho") is

• A)the same as between a sample mean and a population mean.
• B)such that the correlation coefficient provides an estimate of rho.
• C)such that the more sampling error there is for the correlation coefficient,the wider the confidence interval for rho.
• D)all of these

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