AP Statistics › How to find correlation
Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between variables?
It is found that there is a correlation of exactly between two variables. Which of the following is incorrect?
A national study on cell phone use found the following correlations:
-The correlation between the number of texts sent each day and a person's average credit card debt is .
-The correlation between the number of texts sent each day and the number of books read each month is .
Which of the following statements are true?
i. As the number of texts sent each day increases, average credit card debt increases.
ii. Sending more texts causes people to read less.
iii. A person's average credit card debt is related more strongly to the number of texts sent each day than the number of books read each month is related to the number of texts sent each day.
In a medical school, it is found that there is a correlation of between the amount of coffee consumed by students and the number of hours students sleep each night. Which of the following is true?
i. There is a positive association between the two variables.
ii. There is a strong correlation between the two variables.
iii. Coffee consumption in medical school students causes students to sleep less each night.
Which of the following shows the least correlation between two variables?
Which of the following correlation coefficients implies the strongest relationship between variables: