Pearson product moment correlation coefficient


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Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r)

a CORRELATION coefficient for use with continuous variables (interval or ratio scales) with a NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. A theoretical justification for the measure is that r2 is the proportion of the variance in one of the variables that may be predicted from the other.
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