The stronger a relationship the:
A)larger the absolute size of the correlation coefficient
B)larger the strength coefficient
C)closer to zero is the correlation coefficient
D)larger, positive size of the correlation coefficient
E)larger the beta

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The strength of a relationship between two variables in statistics is often measured by the correlation coefficient. The closer the absolute value of the correlation coefficient is to 1, the stronger the relationship. This means that both strong positive and strong negative relationships will have a large absolute size of the correlation coefficient, regardless of the direction of the relationship.

The Stronger a Relationship The