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Correlations
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/30/2014

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Term
Line of Best Fit
Definition
Shows strength of relationship between two variables.
Term
Correlation Coefficient
Definition
Numerical index of the relationship between two variables.
Shows COVARIENCE
1-> perfect covariance
0-> none of the variance can be explained
Term
Correlations show...
Definition
MAGNITUDE and DIRECTION (negative/positive)
Term
Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
Definition
Explore linear relationships between CONTINUOUS variables.
Term
Spearman's Rho Correlation Coefficient
Definition
Explore linear relationships between ORDINAL variables.

-scores ranked from smallest to largest.
-used when data is not normally distributed.
Term
Proportion of Variance
Definition
To know precisely how much variance is shared. (percentage)

'r' squared x 100
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