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Visualising Correlation with Spreadsheets
Author(s) -
Neuwirth Erich
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1990.tb00127.x
Subject(s) - correlation , computer science , statistics , data mining , information retrieval , mathematics , geometry
Summary When teaching correlation it is often very useful to show examples of data sets with a given correlation. This article describes a method using a spreadsheet to generate such scatterplots and to obtain “confidence regions”.