Imagine That You Could Draw a Flat Horizontal Line Through

question 62

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you could draw a flat horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y. Which of the following is the closest value to the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?

• A) -1.0
• B) -.5
• C) 0
• D) 1.0

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