We can test the null hypothesis that ñ = 0 by transforming the sample correlation
coefficient into a statistic that has a sampling distribution that closely approximates the F
distribution with k - 1 degrees of freedom.

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The sample correlation coefficient is typically transformed into a t-statistic, not an F-statistic, to test the null hypothesis that the population correlation coefficient (ρ) is zero. The t-distribution is used for this test, not the F-distribution.

We Can Test the Null Hypothesis That ñ = 0