Answer true or false to the following statements and explain your answers. a. A value of R2 close to 1 indicates a causal relationship between the response variable and the predictor variables. b. If a response variable is not linearly related to the predictor variables, the value of R2 will be close to 0. c. If the value of R2 is close to 1, then the linear correlation coefficient of the response variable with each predictor variable will be close to 1 or –1.

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Answer true or false to the following statements and explain your answers.

a. A value of R2 close to 1 indicates a causal relationship between the response variable and the predictor variables.

b. If a response variable is not linearly related to the predictor variables, the value of R2 will be close to 0.

c. If the value of R2 is close to 1, then the linear correlation coefficient of the response variable with each predictor variable will be close to 1 or –1.

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