Mark the statement below true or false. If you believe that a statement is false
ID: 3046838 • Letter: M
Question
Mark the statement below true or false. If you believe that a statement is false, briefly say why you think it is false.
A retailer calculated the correlation line between the price of an item (x) and the amount sold (y). The correlation line is the same if the x and y variables are exchanged.
a) The statement is true.
b) the statement is false. The intercept of the correlation line will change, but the slope will not change.
c) The statement is false. The slope of the correlation line will change, but the intercept will not change.
d) the statement is false. The slppe and intercept of the correlation line will both change.
Explanation / Answer
The Pearson correlation coefficient of x and y is the same, whether you compute pearson(x, y) or pearson(y, x).
the statement is true