If a Researcher Wants to Examine the Direction of a Relationship

question 11

Multiple Choice

If a researcher wants to examine the direction of a relationship between two variables such that he or she posits that one variable causes the other, what type of statistical procedure would be used?

• A) Correlation
• B) ANOVA
• C) Repeated measures
• D) Path analysis

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