Question 9: What would be the effect of adjusting for race if systolic blood pressure were related to race and recovery index were not?
If recovery index is independent of adjusting variables, the adjustment will reduce the variability of the deviations and so make the estimate of b better, in that the confidence interval will be narrower, but the estimate will not be changed.
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