If Decreases in the X Variable Are Accompanied by Decreases

question 23

True/False

If decreases in the X variable are accompanied by decreases in the Y variable, then the correlation between X and Y is negative.

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Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set, a set of standards for collecting data on hospital inpatient stays.

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