Which of the Following Statistical Techniques Is Used to Examine

question 30

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statistical techniques is used to examine correlations but allows a bit of a suggestion as to the direction, or causality, in the relationship between factors?

• A)factor analysis
• B)path analysis
• C)multivariate analysis
• D)analysis of covariance

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