Megan Is Examining the Likelihood of People Riding the Subway

question 18

True/False

Megan is examining the likelihood of people riding the subway.The dependent variable takes on the value of 1 if the individual rides the subway and 0 otherwise.Therefore,she could use logistic regression to examine this question.

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