Is a Correlation Between a and B Enough to Show

question 81

Multiple Choice

Is a correlation between A and B enough to show that A causes B?

• A)Yes.
• B)No, but it does show that A must be a contributing factor.
• C)No, because it shows that B causes A.
• D)No, but it definitely shows that A and B are causally related.
• E)No, because, for example, the correlation might be coincidental.

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Definitions:

Gym Visits

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Poisson Random Variable

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Expected Value

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