A hospital found that a lower outside temperature indicates a higher number of patient visits. What can we determine from this information?   There is no correlation between outside temperature and number of patient visits.   There is a correlation between outside temperature and number of patient visits. However, there is no causation. This is because there is an increase in the number of patient visits with a decrease in the temperature outside.

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