A Researcher Observes a Link Between His Hypothesized Independent Variable

question 32

Multiple Choice

A researcher observes a link between his hypothesized independent variable and dependent variable.He then adds a new variable to his model that occurs after the independent variable.He is modeling this added variable as a(n)

• A)lagged dependent variable between Time 1 and Time 2.
• B)mechanism between the independent variable and the dependent variable.
• C)test of the null hypothesis that the independent and dependent variables are related by chance.
• D)statistical significance test of the association between the independent and dependent variables.

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