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When the true correlation coefficient is zero (H0:
r=0 and H1: r¹0)
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Use Student-t to test
the significance of r
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and n = N-2 degree of freedom
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When the true correlation coefficient is
not expected to be zero
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We can not use a
symmetric normal distribution for the test.
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We must use Fisher’s Z
transformation to convert the distribution of r
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to a normal
distribution:
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