A Schedule for Trains from Chicago to New Orleans in One

question 61

Multiple Choice

A schedule for trains from Chicago to New Orleans in one column shows how far each stop on the route is from Chicago and in another column how far the same stops are from New Orleans.The correlation between the two columns is ____.

• A) A Pearson's product moment correlation of +1.00
• B) A Pearson's product moment correlation between zero and +1.00
• C) A Pearson's product moment correlation of zero
• D) A Pearson's product moment correlation between zero and -1.00
• E) A Pearson's product moment correlation of -1.00

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Definitions:

Relative Change

Relative Change represents the ratio of the change in a quantity to the original amount, often expressed as a percentage to indicate how much something has increased or decreased relative to its initial value.

Coefficient Of Correlation

A numerical measure that represents the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Covariance

A measure indicating the extent to which two variables change together, revealing whether an increase in one variable tends to be accompanied by an increase (positive covariance) or decrease (negative covariance) in the other.

Distribution

In statistics, a distribution is a function that shows the possible values for a variable and how often they occur.