Sections
Key Terms
Key Terms
- coefficient of correlation
- a measure developed by Karl Pearson during the early 1900s that gives the strength of association between the independent variable and the dependent variable;
where n is the number of data points
The coefficient cannot be more than 1 and less than –1. The closer the coefficient is to ±1, the stronger the evidence of a significant linear relationship between x and y.
- outlier
- an observation that does not fit the rest of the data