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The example in the text predicting distress in cancer patients used distress at an earlier time as one of the predictors. This was done
 
  a. because the authors wanted to be able to report a large correlation.
  b. because the authors wanted to see what effect earlier distress had.
  c. because the authors wanted to look at the effects of self-blame after controlling for initial differences in distress.
  d. because the authors didn't care about self-blame, but wanted to control for it.

Question 2

The example in Chapter 11 of predicting weight from height and sex showed that
 
  a. adding sex as a predictor accounted for an important source of variability.
  b. there is a much stronger relationship between height and weight in males than in females.
  c. sex is not a useful predictor in this situation.
  d. we cannot predict very well, even with two predictors.


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akemokai

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

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clippers!

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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