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ELESTA1
Correlation
Measure
Nature of Correlation
Magnitude/direction
of the
relationship
Strength of the relationship
Variance explained
Significance of the relationship
relationship as one
variable increases the other variable
also increases
Ex. academic grades and intelligence
Negative relationship as one
variable increases, the other
decreases or vice versa
Ex. procrastination and motivation
Absence of relationship between
variables denoted by .00
Strength of Relationship
A
0.6 0.79
Strong relationship
0.40 0.59
Substantial/marked relationship
0.2 0.39
Low relationship
0.00 0.19
Negligible relationship
Variance
How
much of Ys is
explained/accounted for by X
Proportion explained
Square of the correlation coefficient
value
Conditions in interpreting r
Linear
Correlational Techniques
Pearson
Product-Moment correlation
(r) used for interval/ratio sets of
variables
Spearman Rank-order correlation
two sets of data are ordinal
Phi coefficient each of the
variables is a dichotomy