"advanced statistics" are required for people to become professional psychologists. You can see from some of these examples that psychologists need to understand advanced statistics so they can untangle some of these ambiguous relationships. Using statistics like multiple regression with problems like the Straus example we can accurately estimate how important each of the different factors is in explaining any dependent variable,

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