While ignoring the independent variable, we make 78 errors when predicting the dependent variable. When taking the independent into account, we reduce the number of errors to 43 . Therefore

a. the variables are not associated
b. the variables are associated
c. the independent variable is definitely a cause of the dependent variable
d. phi will be 0


b

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