Heights and forearms: For each student, measure both height and forearm length. Compute the correlation between them.

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Heights and forearms: For each student, measure both height and forearm length. Compute the correlation between them. Now compute the correlation separately for men and for women. Are the separate correlations higher or lower than the correlation for the whole data set? Why? Draw a scatterplot of height versus forearm length, using different symbols for men and women.

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9781264136407

4th Edition

Authors: William Navidi , Barry Monk

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