Suggested answer to exercise: Serum potassium and ambient temperature, 7

Question 7. How would you describe the evidence for a relationship between ambient temperature and serum potassium based on this graph?

Suggested answer

The P value is 0.02, so the correlation coefficient is significantly different from zero. There is evidence that mean serum potassium and temperature are related.


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