Discussion Post 5

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:  

Based upon what we learned from our required learning activities from this week, what are the strengths and weaknesses of correlation analysis and how would you use a correlation analysis to support a policy argument? What benefits would an analyst derive from constructing a contingency table for variables and how would the analyst decide which variables to include? What answers would the analyst find in the table? 

Need at least 1 reference.