1986 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Point Biserial and Phi Coefficients of Correlation
verfasst von : R. B. G. Williams
Erschienen in: Intermediate Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists
Verlag: Macmillan Education UK
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Suppose an investigator interviews a random sample of motorists to determine how far each motorist travels per week on shopping and pleasure trips. He has been told that there is a close correlation between the distances motorists travel and their sex. In order to check this assertion, he divides his sample into male and female motorists, and then does a t-test to determine whether the mean distances are significantly different for the two sexes.