Friday, May 17, 2013

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In statistics, the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (sometimes referred to as the PPMCC or PCC,[1] or Pearson's r) is a measure of the linear correlation (dependence) between two variables X and Y, giving a value between +1 and −1 inclusive. It is widely used in the sciences as a measure of the strength of linear dependence between two variables. It was developed by Karl Pearson from a related idea introduced by Francis Galton in the 1880s.[2][3]"

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