If a Researcher Wants to Examine the Direction of a Relationship

question 36

Multiple Choice

If a researcher wants to examine the direction of a relationship between two variables such that they posit that one variable causes the other, what type of statistical procedure would be used?

• A)correlation
• B)ANOVA
• C)MANOVA
• D)path analysis

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