Multiple Choice
The appropriate correlation coefficient for measuring the direction and strength of the linear relationship between one continuous and one dichotomous variable is ______.
A) the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient
B) the point-biserial correlation coefficient
C) the phi correlation coefficient
D) none of these
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