Question

There is a positive correlation between drinking coconut milk and eating potato chips. What does this correlation mean? What are three possible underlying relationships between the variables?

Answer 1

Answer with explanation:

It is given that, there is positive correlation between drinking coconut milk and eating potato chips.

→Correlation coefficient is denoted by r.

→The value of r lies between , -1 and 1 which is represented as , -1 ≤r≤1.

→Correlation that is relation between two variables is said to be strongly positive, if r is equal to 1, and it is said to be strongly weak, if it is equal to -1 , and said to have no association if r=0.

→ The meaning of positive correlation is that value of r, is greater than >0.8 but less than 1.

The two variables which are positively correlated ,can have following relationship.

1. With increase in one other increases.

2.With decrease in one other decreases.

3. Slope will be a linear that is a straight line not passing through origin.