The appropriate method for calculating the degrees of freedom associated with a correlation coefficient is ______
A)n - 1
B)n - 2
C)n - 3
D)n - 4

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The appropriate method of calculating the degrees of freedom associated with a correlation coefficient is n - 2 where n refers to the number of pairs of observations used to calculate the correlation coefficient. The reason for subtracting 2 is because both variables have their own degrees of freedom that need to be accounted for.

The Appropriate Method for Calculating the Degrees of Freedom Associated