Question

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The Faculty of Applied Science & Technology at wants to develop an empirical model to predict the success of its students in completing their diplomas
a. What would you use as the response or outcome variable in this study?
b. What predictor variables would you recommend using?
c. Discuss how you would collect data to build this model. Is this a retrospective study
or an observational study?