How does the correlation coefficient change when you switch the X and Y variables?
- It changes sign
- It decreases
- It increases
- It remains the same
The correlation coefficient remains the same when you switch the X and Y variables. This is because correlation measures the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables, not the dependency of one on the other.
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