Suppose You Had a Series of Eight Measures of Anxiety

question 41

Multiple Choice

Suppose you had a series of eight measures of anxiety that you administered to a sample. You would use the statistical technique referred to as ____ in order to test the hypothesis that they are all measuring the same thing (anxiety) .

• A)linear regression
• B)multiple regression
• C)discriminant analysis
• D)factor analysis

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