A Researcher Wants to Measure the Strength of the Association

question 24

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to measure the strength of the association between income (measured in dollars per year) and education (measured in number of years of formal schooling) . Which of the following would be the most appropriate measure of association?

• A) The slope (b)
• B) Gamma
• C) Chi square
• D) Pearson's r

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Definitions:

Utility Possibilities Frontier

Curve showing all efficient allocations of resources measured in terms of the utility levels of two individuals.

Production Possibilities Frontier

Curve showing the combinations of two goods that can be produced with fixed quantities of inputs.

Pareto Optimal

A state of allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate so as to make any one individual or preference criterion better off without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off.

Marginal Rate

The rate at which one variable changes with respect to a minute change in another variable.