The Relationship Between a Sample's Correlation Coefficient and the Population $\rho$

question 35

Multiple Choice

The relationship between a sample's correlation coefficient and the population correlation ( $\rho$ ,"rho") is

• A) analogous to the relationship 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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