Bivariate Regression

Question 1

What is bivariate regression?

Answer 1

A way to make a prediction
- estimates future outcomes from present ones

Question 2

What does bivariate regression use?

Answer 2

1 variable to predict scores on another variable

Question 3

What can predictions use correlations for?

Answer 3

the basis for predicting X based on values of Y
- larger the correlation (r) = more accurate predictions

Question 4

What is a regression line?

Answer 4

a line of “best fit”