A 2012 study published in the journal Nutrition studied the relationship between total plasma homocysteine y and transthyretin x , and gave the correlation coefficient as r=-0.71.
What does this mean?
There is strong evidence in the sample of a negative linear relationship between total plasma homocysteine and transthyretin, and the relationship is very strong.
The sample presents no evidence of a linear relationship between total plasma homocysteine and transthyretin.
There is a reasonably strong negative linear relationship between total plasma homocysteine and transthyretin.
The value is negative, which cannot be correct.