SOLUTION: Is the number of pets and the number of doctors in a city likely to be a correlation?

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Question 699804: Is the number of pets and the number of doctors in a city likely to be a correlation?
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You have no way of knowing unless you do an appropriate survey and do a regression analysis on the data. However, it would be an error to draw any inference from the results of such a regression analysis regardless of the results.

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