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Chapter 5

1. The ___________ provides an easy visual means of determining the average height of the children for any height mid-parent.
        
2. Galton observed that large parents produced smaller offspring, small parents produced larger offspring, and average parents produced average offspring. He identified this pattern as __________.
        
3. You have collected students' grades in two classes and wish to compare them. The English grading scale is based on 200 possible points, and the Statistics scale upon 150. How could you compare these scores directly to see how many students are doing better in Statistics?
        
4. There is a relationship between the price of rum in Havana and the number of Presbyterian ministers in Boston. This is an example of __________.
        
5. The association between anxiety and test performance in school is an example of;
        
6. There is a relationship between the number of churches and the number of liquor stores in a community which is probably due to __________ .
        
7. Correlation is to __________ as method of least squares is to __________.
        
8. Regression line is to __________ as a two stage application of method of least squares is to __________.
        
9. When Galton compared different generations of people on distributions of physical traits, he was surprised to find that:
        
10. Absence of linear relationship is to __________ as linear relationship is to __________.
        
11. A correlation of .00 is to __________ as a correlation of .88 is to __________.
        
12. A correlation of .99 is to __________ as a correlation of .33 is to __________ .