The appropriate correlation coefficient for measuring the direction and strength of the linear relationship between one continuous and one dichotomous variable is ______.

A. the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient
B. the point-biserial correlation coefficient
C. the phi correlation coefficient
D. none of these


Ans: B

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