For Which of These Research Situations Would You MOST Likely

question 67

Multiple Choice

For which of these research situations would you MOST likely calculate a correlation coefficient?

• A) IV = city of residence; DV = annual salary
• B) IV = ethnicity; DV = political affiliation
• C) IV = number of siblings; DV = age at marriage
• D) IV = age; DV = type of car owned

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or the parameters of a model.

Treatments

The conditions or interventions applied to participants in an experimental study.

F-Test

An F-test is a type of statistical test that compares the variances of two populations to determine if they are significantly different from each other.

Randomized Block Design

Randomized block design is a statistical experiment design that aims to reduce variation by grouping similar experimental units into blocks before randomly assigning treatments within blocks.