Kiera is interested is assessing the degree of relationship between whether or not students belong to a fraternity or sorority and the number of hours they spend volunteering each week. Kiera should use the _____ correlation coefficient to assess this relationship.
A) partial
B) point-biserial
C) phi
D) Pearson product-moment

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The point-biserial correlation coefficient is used when one variable is dichotomous (e.g., belonging to a fraternity/sorority: yes or no) and the other is continuous (e.g., number of hours spent volunteering).

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