Author Question: With 5 degrees of freedom, the critical tabled value of the Pearson r is .75 for an .05 alpha ... (Read 52 times)

bb · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

With 5 degrees of freedom, the critical tabled value of the Pearson r is
.75 for an .05 alpha level. If one were to obtain a Pearson r value of -.76,
then

a. There is a failure to reject Ho
b. Ho would be rejected
c. the alpha level would become negative
d. none of these, since a negative Pearson r cannot be evaluated

Question 2

When Ho is rejected for the Pearson r, then

a. the correlation is assumed not to be significant
b. the correlation is assumed to be significant
c. alpha error is eliminated
d. none of these, since when Ho is rejected no statement of significance is
possible