Pretend You're Creating a Contingency Table Made Up of Two

question 9

Multiple Choice

Pretend you're creating a contingency table made up of two categorical variables. Your __________ variables would make up the rows, and the __________ variables would make up the columns.

• A) predictor; exposure
• B) outcome; exposure
• C) exposure; outcome
• D) None of these is correct.

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Definitions:

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Prosecutor

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