What affects correlation? Here are some hypothetical data: x: 1 2 3 4 10 10 y: 1

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What affects correlation? Here are some hypothetical data:

x: 1 2 3 4 10 10 y: 1 3 3 5 1 11

(a) Make a scatterplot to show the relationship between x and y.

(b) Calculate the correlation for these data by hand or using technology.

(c) What is responsible for reducing the correlation to the value in part

(b) despite a strong straight-line relationship between x and y in most of the observations?

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781464108730

5th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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