What Would You Expect the Correlation Coefficient to Look Like

question 45

Multiple Choice

What would you expect the correlation coefficient to look like if high numbers of cigarettes smoked predicted high incidences of lung cancer?

• A) + 0.01
• B) + 0.75
• C) + 9.00
• D) - 0.90

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