While you can use the correlation coefficient as its own test statistic, what is the other appropriate test statistic often used to examine the significance of a correlation

T-test

Step-by-step explanation:

Significance of correlation between two variables x and y measures the strength and direction of their relationship. This is used to make future forecasts of the behaviour of a variable under study.

Correlation coefficient can be used to measure significance of correlation, but we can also use the t-test.

T-test is a statistics that is inferential. It measures the significance of difference between the means of two groups.

T-test is the statistic of choice when carrying out hypothesis testing.

T distribution values and degrees of freedom are used to determine statistical significance.

For example the means of two samples can be compared to determine of the come from the same population