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Given the linear correlation coefficient r and the sample size n, determine the critical values of r and use your finding to state whether or not the given r represents a significant linear correlation. Use a significance level of 0.05.
r = 0.543, n = 25
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Pearsons product-moment coefficient
a t-statistic can be estimated as follows:
t = r / [ √{(1 - r²)/(n - 2)}]
substitute values
t = 0.543 / [ √{(1 - 0.543²) / (25 - 2)}]
t= calculate this !!!!!!!!!!
Note that the (25 - 2) is the number of degrees of freedom for this test.
Let the null hypothesis be H(0): ρ=0
That is, the true value of the correlation coefficient is zero.
From tables of the t-statistic, the one-tail 0.05 critical value is 1.714 for 23 degrees of freedom.
Since our t exceeds this, we can say that H(0) can be rejected at the 0.05 level of significance.
Therefore there is evidence that real correlation exists within these data. That is ρ>0
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