In: Statistics and Probability
(Ch 12, pg. 715). Consider the following scatter plot:
a) Does there appear to be a strong or weakcorrelation between y and x?
b) Is the correlation positive or negative?
c) Would this be classified as a linear equation, yes or no?
ANSWER::
a) Weak correlation
Since the scatter plot is really scattered, the values of (x,y) are not very close to each other, therefore this is showing a relatively weak correlation between the two variables.
b) Negative
The slope is showing a downward trend i.e. as X increases, Y decreases. So there is a negative relationship between the two variables under consideration.
c) NO
Since the correlation is weak, there will be very few points who would lie on a straight line. Even if we fit a linear equation, there would be many outliers and hence the model will not be a good fit, with high error residuals.
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