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Correlation and Causation

Correlation and Causation. Part II – Correlation Coefficient. This video is designed to accompany pages 19-24 in Making Sense of Uncertainty Activities for Teaching Statistical Reasoning Van- Griner Publishing Company. Defining a Need.

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Correlation and Causation

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  1. Correlation and Causation Part II – Correlation Coefficient

  2. This video is designed to accompany pages 19-24 in Making Sense of Uncertainty Activities for Teaching Statistical Reasoning Van-Griner Publishing Company

  3. Defining a Need The Correlation Coefficient is simply a numerical way of summarizing the relationship you’d see between two variables that you could represent with a scatterplot. Positive association. How strong is it?

  4. Formula for “r” The Correlation Coefficient is “r” measures the strength of the linear relationship between two variables “x” and “y”.

  5. Before we compute it … It is only appropriate to compute r if the scatterplot of y versus x exhibits a linear trend r will always be between -1 and 1. r will be negative if the points in the scatterplot have a downward trend from left to right r will be positive if the points in the scatterplot have an upward trend from left to right The closer r is to 1 in absolute value the tighter the cluster of points about the linear trend and the stronger the association between x and y If r is close to 0 then the association is weak.

  6. Simple Scatterplot Moderate, positive correlation?

  7. Compute It!

  8. Scatterplots Revisited Got it! Student Grades LDL Levels r = -0.93 r = 0.75 Time Spent Studying Hours Exercised Life Expectancy at Birth Final Exam Score Not appropriate to use r since plot is curved r = 0.02 GNP per capita Quiz Average

  9. One-Sentence Reflection The correlation coefficient is the most common numerical measure of the strength of a straight line relationship between two variables that can represented by a scatterplot.

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