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13.2 Exercise 2

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The correlation between scores on a neuroticism test and scores on an anxiety test is high and positive; therefore

  1. anxiety causes neuroticism
  2. those who score low on one test tend to score high on the other.
  3. those who score low on one test tend to score low on the other.
  4. no prediction from one test to the other can be meaningfully made.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 13.2 Testing the Significance of the Correlation Coefficient, exercise 2

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