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tnt_battle

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Suppose the correlation between height and weight for all the students in your class is found to be .20 . You think that you must be overlooking something, because the relationship should be stronger than that. What additional variable may be masking an underlying relationship here?

Question 2

A number of anomalies can cause misleading correlations. Name two problems that can cause distortion with correlations.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANY REASONABLE ANSWER OK. EXAMPLE: GENDER.

Answer to Question 2

1) OUTLIERS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY INFLATE OR DEFLATE THEM; 2) GROUPS COMBINED INAPPROPRIATELY MAY MASK RELATIONSHIPS.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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