Testing for the Existence of Correlation Is Equivalent to A) $\left( \beta _ { 1 } \right)$

question 65

Short Answer

Testing for the existence of correlation is equivalent to a) testing for the existence of the slope $\left( \beta _ { 1 } \right)$ .
b) testing for the existence of the $Y$ -intercept $\left( \beta _ { 0 } \right)$ .
c) the confidence interval estimate for predicting $Y$ .
d) None of the above.

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