When Making Passive Predictions, Which Type of Relationship Must You

question 9

Multiple Choice

When making passive predictions, which type of relationship must you believe continues to hold when you move your estimation sample to your forecasting sample?

• A) The (semi) partial correlations of your dependent and independent variables
• B) The determining function
• C) Random treatment assignment
• D) Selection bias

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