Question text We measure heights and weights of 100 twenty-year old male college

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Question text

We measure heights and weights of 100 twenty-year old male college students.Which will have the higher correlation:

Select one:

a. Both will be about the same, but corr(height, weight) will be a little higher.

b. Both will be about the same, but corr(weight, height) will be a little higher.

c. corr(height, weight) will be much greater than corr(weight, height)

d. corr(weight, height) will be much greater than corr(height, weight)

e. corr(weight, height) will have same corr(height, weight)

Explanation / Answer

The Pearson correlation coefficient of x and yis the same, whether you compute pearson(x, y) or pearson(y, x).

So answer is

e. corr(weight, height) will have same corr(height, weight)

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