A Researcher Wants to Predict Score on Personal Happiness (Y)

question 4

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to predict score on personal happiness (Y) from score on income (X1) and number of friends (X2) . Which of the following would be the proper course of action?

• A) use 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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