OCR S1 2010 January — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicBivariate data
TypeCalculate r from summary statistics

3 The heights, \(h \mathrm {~m}\), and weights, \(m \mathrm {~kg}\), of five men were measured. The results are plotted on the diagram.
\includegraphics[max width=\textwidth, alt={}, center]{5c25d6cf-2c23-4b49-88fb-e4abe6c281e4-3_738_956_386_593} The results are summarised as follows. $$n = 5 \quad \Sigma h = 9.02 \quad \Sigma m = 377.7 \quad \Sigma h ^ { 2 } = 16.382 \quad \Sigma m ^ { 2 } = 28558.67 \quad \Sigma h m = 681.612$$
  1. Use the summarised data to calculate the value of the product moment correlation coefficient, \(r\).
  2. Comment on your value of \(r\) in relation to the diagram.
  3. It was decided to re-calculate the value of \(r\) after converting the heights to feet and the masses to pounds. State what effect, if any, this will have on the value of \(r\).
  4. One of the men had height 1.63 m and mass 78.4 kg . The data for this man were removed and the value of \(r\) was re-calculated using the original data for the remaining four men. State in general terms what effect, if any, this will have on the value of \(r\).