Correlation
Message posted by Pauline (via 65.198.98.16) on July 11, 2001 at 12:10 PM (ET)

In a graph with the X variable on the horizontal axis and the Y on the vertical axis, a correlation is stronger:

a)the more scattered the points are
b)when the points form a square
c)when the points form a diagonal
d)when the points form a circle

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Re: Correlation
Message posted by Darius (via 200.23.217.10) on July 11, 2001 at 3:58 PM (ET)

When it show a lineal pattern (a strait line) with slope <>0

So:

c)when the points form a diagonal