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Chapter 3: Q.25 (page 162)

What affects correlation? Make a scatterplot of the following data:

The correlation for these data is 0.5. What is responsible for reducing the correlation to this value despite a strong straight-line relationship between xand yin most of the observations?

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The linear correlation coefficient is heavily influenced by the outlier (10,1).

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Given Information 

The correlation is0.5.

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Explanation

The horizontal axis contains the x-values, while the vertical axis contains the y-values.

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Explanation

The correlation is 0.5, which indicates that there is a modest association.

We can see that if we omit the point in the graph's bottom right corner, we get a very strong linear pattern, and the correlation coefficient would be much greater than 0.5.

Thus the outlier (10,1)strongly influences the linear correlation coefficient.

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