Which of the following statements is true of the correlation coefficient?

A. It is a measure of central tendency.
B. It is a statistic that indicates the amount of spread in a distribution of scores.
C. It is a measure of variability.
D. It is a statistic that describes how strongly variables are related to one another.


Answer: D

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