If the points on the scatter diagram show no tendency either to increase together or decrease together, the value of r will be close to 0.5.
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The first thing to understand is what the value of r represents. r is the correlation coefficient, which measures the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables. It ranges from -1 to 1, where -1 indicates a perfect negative Show more…
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