
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3.2, Problem 14PB
Politics and newspaper reading For the FL Student Survey data file on the book’s website, the
- a. Would you call this association strong or weak? Explain.
- b. The correlation between political ideology and religiosity (how often attend religious services) is 0.58. For this sample, which explanatory variable, newspaper reading or religiosity, seems to have a stronger association with y? Explain.
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