A Researcher Is Trying to Determine If Income (X1) or Number

question 8

Multiple Choice

A researcher is trying to determine if income (X1) or number of friends (X2) is more important in determining personal happiness (Y) . Which of the following would be the most profitable course of action?

• A) examine the standardized partial slopes of X1 and X2 on Y
• B) examine the unstandardized partial slopes of X1 and X2 on Y
• C) compute the partial correlation coefficient for X1 and X2 controlling for Y
• D) examine the partial slope of Y on each independent separately

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