When conducting research on families it is common to ask multiple members of a family about the same experience or activity.However, which of the assumptions of multiple regression is violated in this situation?
A)All observations must be collected at the same time.
B)All observations must be included in the analysis.
C)All observations must be independent of each other.
D)All observations must be from the same individual.

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The assumption violated is that all observations must be independent of each other. When asking multiple members of the same family about the same experience, their responses are likely to be correlated, thus violating the independence assumption of multiple regression.

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