When a person s score on one variable is used to make predictions about a person

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When a person s score on one variable is used to make predictions about a person's score on another variable, the procedure is called a correlation. hypothesis testing. bivariate prediction. multicollinearity. If a counseling psychologist wants to predict college grades from high school grades, college grades are the predictor variable. criterion variable. independent variable. causal variable. If a child psychologist report, that age in months predict appetite level foe a group of infants using a linear prediction rule in which a = 1 and b = 2. the appetite level for a four-month-old infant is 4 8 9 12 The regression constant is also referred to as error. a slope. the X intercept. the Y intercept. Why are errors squared in a regression? to give more weight to smaller errors because summing positive and negative errors will cancel them out multiplying positive and negative errors will always result in negative numbers errors are not actually squared in a regression

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i)when persons score on one variable is used to make predictions about persons score on other variable

this procedure is called

c. Bivariate Prediction

ii) If a counseling psychologist wants to predict college grades from a high school grades, college grades are the

b. criterion variable

iii) If a child Psycologist report that age in month predicts apetite level for a group of infants using a linear prediction rule in which a=1 and b=2 the apetite level for a four-month-old infant is

c. 9

iv) The regression constant is also refered as

d. the Y intercept

v) why are errors squared in a regression?

b. beacuse summing positive and negative errors will cancel them out

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