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Original Articles

Evaluating the Significance Test When the Correlation Coefficient is Different from Zero in the Test of Hypothesis

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Pages 847-854 | Received 28 Jul 2005, Accepted 05 Jan 2007, Published online: 25 Jun 2007

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