A Graduate Student Is Using a Statistical Software Package to Identify

question 56

Multiple Choice

A graduate student is using a statistical software package to identify the basic patterns underlying the many relationships among a large number of variables. She is performing ______ analysis.

• A)trend
• B)matrix
• C)factor
• D)correlation

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