Suggested answer to exercise: Breast feeding, maternal intelligence, and babies' intelligence, 2

Question 2: What method would the authors use for this adjustment and why?

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We have a quantitative outcome variable, IQ. For quantitative outcome variables, we use multiple regression. Here we would use the simplest type, multiple linear regession or ordinary least squares regression.

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