A Contingency Table Would Be Used to Summarize Data Such

question 101

Multiple Choice

A contingency table would be used to summarize data such as ________.

• A) Company employees by gender and organizational title
• B) Company employees by gender and age
• C) Company employees by compensation and age
• D) Company employees by compensation and years with the company

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Definitions:

Scatterplot

A type of graph used in statistics to display values for typically two variables for a set of data.

Regression Line

A straight line that describes how a response variable y changes as an explanatory variable x changes, in linear regression analysis.

Best-Fitting Line

A line through a scatter plot of data points that best expresses the relationship between those points, often determined by the method of least squares.

Prime Time

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