In the example scatterplot of child reading score as a

Last updated: 4/18/2023

In the example scatterplot of child reading score as a function of child IQ score the correlation coefficient r 90 100 110 120 Child s reading test score 50 40 08 0 09 OE 2 10 90 95 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 150 Child s IQ test score is close to zero indicating a lack of association is noticeably affected by the outlier of the relationship is a misleading value because of the nonlinear pattern has a negative value indicating an inverse linear