A Pediatric Cardiologist Decides to Determine Whether There Is a Relationship

A pediatric cardiologist decides to determine whether there is a relationship between body composition and blood pressure in a random sample of children and adolescents age 5-15.  He used standard procedures to collect anthropometric measurements that included weight, height, hip circumference (HC) , and waist circumference (WC) .  Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic pressure (DBP) readings were taken at least 3 times at 5-minute intervals after the participants had been seated, and average SBP and DBP readings were calculated based on these measurements.  Which of the following statistical tests is adequate to determine whether there is a relationship between WC and average DBP?

A) Analysis of variance
B) Chi-square test
C) Correlation analysis
D) Meta-analysis
E) Two-sample t-test

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