Which of the Following Statements Is True Regarding a Scatter

question 133

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true regarding a scatter diagram?

• A)It provides very little information about the relationship between the regression variables.
• B)It is a plot of the independent and dependent variables.
• C)It is a line chart of the independent and dependent variables.
• D)It has a value between -1 and +1.
• E)It gives the percent of variation in the dependent variable that is explained by the independent variable.

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Definitions:

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Deviations

Differences between observed values and the average or expected values in a data set.