Briefly answer the following: What does a correlation show? What is the strength and direction of r = .25? How would you describe the relationship that is depicted by a circle on a graph? What does it mean that hours spent studying and hours spent watching tv is negatively correlated? Give an example of a positive correlation. Use your own words.
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It ranges from -1 to 1, where values close to 1 indicate a strong positive correlation, values close to -1 indicate a strong negative correlation, and values close to 0 indicate a weak or no correlation. Show more…
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