Exercise: Head circumference and height, answer 3

Question 3: One of the statistics often calculated for data like these is a correlation coefficient, also known as Pearson’s correlation coefficient or the product moment correlation coefficient, usually denoted by r. What does this tell us?

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The correlation coefficient measures the strength of the linear relationship between head circumference and height.

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