There is a relationship between the amount of fire damage (dependent variable) and the number of trucks responding to the fire (independent variables). It is a positive relationship. If one controls for the size of fire, however, this original relationship will decrease or disappear. This is an example of using which procedure:
A) Holding an extraneous variable constant
B) Causal modeling
C) Statistical control
D) Matching

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Statistical control is used to account for the influence of extraneous variables, such as the size of the fire, to better understand the relationship between the main variables of interest.

There Is a Relationship Between the Amount of Fire Damage