What Is a Statistical Association

question 29

Multiple Choice

What is a statistical association?

• A) It is a relationship between two variables that is unlikely to be due to chance.
• B) It is a relationship between two variables that may be meaningful, but that may equally well be due to chance.
• C) It is a chance association between two variables.
• D) It is an organization devoted to the documentation of numerical information from different societies.

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