Correlation coefficients are statistics used to denote ____.
A) the amount of variability in a dataset
B) the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables
C) the degree to which the difference between two arithmetic means is likely to have been due to chance
D) the strength of the relationship among three or more variables

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Correlation coefficients are used to measure the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables. Option A is the definition of variance, option C is the definition of t-tests, and option D refers to the concept of multiple correlation.

Correlation Coefficients Are Statistics Used to Denote ____