Consider that in a retrospective cohort study involving job type and heart disease among railroad workers, the following data was obtained.                                             heart disease   job type                  yes                      no   clerk                      50                         500 track worker          22                         390   calculate the association between the two vari

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Consider that in a retrospective cohort study involving job type and heart disease among railroad workers, the following data was obtained.

 

                                          heart disease

 

job type                  yes                      no

 

clerk                      50                         500

track worker          22                         390

 

calculate the association between the two variables - The first is the covariance, and the second is the correlation coefficient.

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