Hypothetical Scenario:

interested in assessing whether student loneliness is correlated with how many Facebook friends they have. You ask a random sample of 30 students to rate their current loneliness on a 10-point scale (1=Not lonely at all and 10=Extremely lonely) and then you ask the same 30 students how many Facebook friends they have.

Data Set 2: Make up a data set that shows a negative linear correlation between students' loneliness and the number of Facebook friends they have.

a brief summary of the analyses. and include the following: Description of any notable characteristics of the data that can see by looking at the scatter diagram. In particular, you should describe any outliers or other unusual data.

• Description of any notable characteristics of the data that at the scatter diagram. describe any outliers or other unusual data.
• Interpret numbers in the context of the overall study, report the correlation value (r), the regression equation (Y^ = a + bX) and any notable characteristics of the scatterplot.

Data set 2 Descriptive Statistics Correlations Std. friends Mean Deviation Pearson onelines 1.000 -898 Comrelation friends 10.87 6.163 30 friends .898 1.000 onelines 4.00 2.853 Sig. (1-tailed) lonelines