The Goal of the ANOVA Is to

question 3

Multiple Choice

The goal of the ANOVA is to

• A) correlate the means of two or more independent variables.
• B) correlate the means of two or more dependent variables.
• C) compare the means on a dependent variable across levels of an independent variable.
• D) compare the means on an independent variable across different levels of a dependent variable.

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