Use the Following Regression Results to Answer the Question Below

question 58

Multiple Choice

Use the following regression results to answer the question below. Which of the following is true?

• A)x explains about 88.5 percent of the variation in y.
• B)y explains about 88.5 percent of the variation in x.
• C)x explains about 78.4 percent of the variation in y.
• D)y explains about 78.4 percent of the variation in x.

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Definitions:

Fundamental

Serving as an essential component or basis; foundational.

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation, often testable by experimentation.

Explanandum

Rephrased: The subject or occurrence that an explanation is attempting to account for in research or analysis.

Outcome

In probability theory, a single, non-compound result among a range of possible results.