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Luke would like to know if there is a relationship between the number of psychology courses people take and their level of empathy. He surveys a randomly selected group of college students. Each student indicates the number of psychology courses he or she has taken and then completes an empathy scale. Luke's research is best described as a(n)


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Confidence Interval

A stretch of values, sourced from sampling, that is predicted to include the value of an elusive population characteristic.

Population Parameter

A numerical value that describes a characteristic of a population, such as mean or standard deviation.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, within which there is a specified probability that the true population parameter lies.

Population Proportion

The fraction of items in a population that are of a particular type.

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