Question

There’s a positive correlation between the price a passenger pays for a train ticket and the number of stops the train makes during their trip.

Which variable is most likely the lurking variable that explains the correlation?



age of passenger

outside temperature

distance being traveled

expected time of arrival

Answer 1

distance being travelled

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The variable that is most likely the lurking variable that explains the correlation is:

Distance being traveled.

Explanation:

As we know that a lurking variable is a variable that correlates between the dependent and independent variable in a scatter plot or some other statistical model.

Hence, here as the distance traveled increases the number of stops would also increase and more passengers would come and hence the cost of ticket will increase.

Hence, the lurking variable is:

Distance being traveled.