By squaring the correlation coefficient, you can:

A. obtain the strength of the causal relationship between variables.
B. obtain an index of the amount of variation in one variable that can be accounted for by variation in the other.
C. determine how much unit change in X you can expect with a unit change in Y.
D. determine how many deviant scores are there in your distributions.


Answer: B

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