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Check Your Understanding: Association vs Causation For a sample of cities in the U.S. the correlation between the murder rate and number of police officers employed by the city is r = 0.72. What can we conclude? The size of the city is a possible lurking variable explaining the association between murder rate and size of the police force. Cities are responding to an increase in the murder rate by hiring more police officers. There is a strong positive linear relationship between murder rate and size of the police force.

          Check Your Understanding: Association vs Causation

For a sample of cities in the U.S. the correlation between the murder rate and number of police officers employed by the city is r = 0.72. What can we conclude?

The size of the city is a possible lurking variable explaining the association between murder rate and size of the police force.
Cities are responding to an increase in the murder rate by hiring more police officers.
There is a strong positive linear relationship between murder rate and size of the police force.

Check Your Understanding: Association vs Causation

For a sample of cities in the U.S. the correlation between the murder rate and number of police officers employed by the city is r = 0.72. What can we conclude?

The size of the city is a possible lurking variable explaining the association between murder rate and size of the police force.
Cities are responding to an increase in the murder rate by hiring more police officers.
There is a strong positive linear relationship between murder rate and size of the police force.

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Check Your Understanding: Association vs Causation For a sample of cities in the U.S. the correlation between the murder rate and number of police officers employed by the city is r = 0.72. What can we conclude? The size of the city is a possible lurking variable explaining the association between murder rate and size of the police force. Cities are responding to an increase in the murder rate by hiring more police officers. There is a strong positive linear relationship between murder rate and size of the police force