Correlation Coefficient Case Study

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Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Correlation is a method used to investigate the relationship between two continuous variables (Mukaka 2012). Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient refers to a measure of the strength of linear association between two variables (BMJ, 2012). The higher the strength associated between the variables when the nearer the scatter plot of variables is to a straight line. Besides, it is used when both of the variables being studies are normally distributed (Mukaka 2012). Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient can clearly show the strength of the relationship between the two variables plotted in the diagram of x and y-axis, thus helps users to clearly identify the correlation between the variables. There are three type of outcomes will be released by drawing the scatter plot in the x-axis (horizontal) and y-axis (vertical) and the range of value is from -1 to +1. The independent variable is plotted on the x-axis and dependent variable is plotted on the y-axis. The first outcome is Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (r) less than 0, which indicates that when one variable increase, the other will be decreased and the data will lay on the straight line with the negative slope. Secondly, there will be no linear relationship between all the variables when r is nearly zero. Lastly, the data will lay on a straight line with a positive slope when r is greater than 0 and this indicates that both variables will increase or decrease together (Appendix 1). …show more content…

It is a statistical tool that permits the researchers to investigate how multiple independent variables are related to a dependent variable (Higgins, 2005) (D. Allison, 1999). Besides, multiple regression will also combine multiple variables to generate dependent variable’s optimal predictions (D. Allison,

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