A Researcher Is Trying to Determine If Income (X₁)or Number

question 27

Multiple Choice

A researcher is trying to determine if income (X₁) or number of friends (X₂) is more important in determining personal happiness (Y) .Which of the following would be the most profitable course of action?

• A)examine the standardized partial slopes of X₁ and X₂ on Y
• B)examine the unstandardized partial slopes of X₁ and X₂ on Y
• C)compute the partial correlation coefficient for X₁ and X₂ controlling for Y
• D)examine the partial slope of Y on each independent separately

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