A researcher is studying the relationship between the age at which a person begins committing delinquent or criminal offenses and the number of offenses that person commits during her or his life. The independent variable is age (measured in years), and the dependent variable is offenses (measured as the total number of lifetime offenses). Based on the variables’ levels of measurement, what hypothesis-testing procedure is appropriate?
A. With a categorical independent variable and a continuous dependent variable, ANOVA is correct.
B. With a continuous independent variable and a continuous dependent variable, correlation is correct.
C. With a categorical independent variable and a continuous dependent variable, correlation is correct.
D. With a categorical independent variable and categorical dependent variable, a t test is correct.
B. With a continuous independent variable and a continuous dependent variable, correlation is correct.
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