If you designed an analytic study that investigated the number of deaths that resulted from accidents involving distracted drivers, the would measure the strength of the association between distracted driving behaviors (texting while driving, cell phone use while driving, eating while driving, etc and vehicular deaths.

The answer that best fits the blank provided above is the term PERSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENT. This should be the applicable tool since we are investigating the relationship between texting while driving and distraction-related car accidentS. Hope this answers your question.

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