Imagine That You Could Draw a Flat Horizontal Line Through

question 22

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you could draw a flat horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y.Which of the following is the closest value to the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?

• A) -1.0
• B) -0.5
• C) 0
• D) 1.0

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Definitions:

Parameter

A value that describes a characteristic of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation, often used in statistical models and inference.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset deviate from the mean.

Sampling Distribution

Distribution of likelihood for a distinct statistic, emanating from a random selection.

Examination Time

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