Correlation Is Useful Only For

question 49

Multiple Choice

Correlation is useful only for:

• A) assessing the weakness of a linear relationship
• B) conveying the same information in a simpler format than a scatterplot
• C) measuring the strength of a linear relationship
• D) automatically calculating covariances
• E) measuring the strength of a nonlinear relationship

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Definitions:

Z Scores

Standard scores indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Observations

In research, the recorded data or measurements of phenomena under study.

Data Values

Numerical or categorical values observed or recorded from an experiment or study.