One Important Reason for Displaying Correlational Data in a Scatterplot

question 2

Multiple Choice

One important reason for displaying correlational data in a scatterplot prior to computing a correlation coefficient is to determine whether

• A)the means for the two variables are the same.
• B)the relationship between the variables is nonlinear.
• C)the x- and y-axis for each variable has appropriate endpoints.
• D)the causal variable is graphed on the x-axis.

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