Describe about the correlation coefficient for quantitative data.

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Describe about the correlation coefficient for quantitative data.

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Correlation:

Correlation a measure which indicates the “go-togetherness” of two data sets. It can be denoted as r. The value of correlation coefficient lies between –1 and +1. The positive 1 indicates that the two data sets are perfect and both are in same direction. The negative 1 indicates that the two data sets are perfect and both are in opposite direction. It will be zero when there is no relationship between the two data sets.

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Correlation coefficient - r:

The Karl Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient or simply, the Pearson’s correlation coefficient is a measure of the strength of a linear association between two variables and is denoted by r or rxy.

The coefficient of correlation rxy between two variables x and y for the bivariate data set (xi, yi) for i=1,2,3…N is given below:

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