Question

Professor Horvat designs a study to assess the work satisfaction and home-life satisfaction of a group of graduate students. She administers the same measures of work and home-life satisfaction on two occasions, 1 year apart. She finds job satisfaction at the first time point is correlated with job satisfaction at the second time point. Which type of correlation is this?

Answer 1

Answer:

Autocorrelations

Explanation:

Autocorrelation is a term in statistics, that describes the level of correlation between the two different time series, such that, it makes use of the same time series twice.

In other words, it is a mathematical representation, that measures the degree of correlation between the values of variables that are similar to each other, across time, space or other dimensions.

In this case, professor Horvat, was able to get results of the study through Autocorrelation because, the variables of the study are similar to each other.