You want to determine the minimum high school Grade Point Av

You want to determine the minimum high school Grade Point Average for admitting Freshman to MTSU. Which statistic would you use?

Solution

As this involved predicting of a certain value (in this case, you want to predict the minimum high school GPA), then it must be

OPTION 1: CORRELATION [ANSWER]

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Linear regression is a way of predicting values. Regression though, is a process, not a statistic. Correlation is.