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A student reports the correlation coefficient of two variables as 1.3. A teacher says that the student must have made a mistake. What is the reason?
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A student reports the correlation coefficient of two variables as
1.3
1.3
1.3
. A teacher says that the student must have made a mistake. What is the reason?
A correlation coefficient must be negative
A correlation coefficient can never be greater than
1
1
1
A correlation coefficient must be a whole number
A correlation coefficient must be less than
0.5
0.5
0.5
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