Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134679259
Author: Bennett
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7.2, Problem 8E
Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5–8, determine whether the statement makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain clearly; not all of these statements have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer.
- 8. Causation. The
correlation I found was so strong that a careful calculation showed it had less than a 1 in 100,000 probability of occurring by chance. Therefore, I can reasonably conclude that one variable is the cause of the other.
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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
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