A nephrologist is studying the effect of BMI on baseline con

A nephrologist is studying the effect of BMI on baseline concentration of blood sugar.

1) Is BMI the independent or dependent variable?

2) In words, what is the standard deviation?

BMI is independent variable

The Standard Deviation is a measure of how spread out numbers are.

you can confirm BMI is independent by this link.

refrence-----http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/BS/BS704_Correlation-Regression/BS704_Correlation-Regression_print.html