Given the linear correlation coefficient r, statistics homework help

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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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