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Pearson's correlation coefficient
Message posted by Paula (via 64.12.104.37) on July 12, 2001 at 11:27 AM (ET)
Pearson's correlation coefficient may be distorted by:
a)the presence of an outlier.
b)curvilinear relationships between variables.
c)samples of less than 30 cases.
d)all of the above
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Re: Pearson's correlation coefficient
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.23.203) on July 12, 2001 at 8:53 PM (ET)
d.
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