Edexcel S1 2011 January — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2011
SessionJanuary
TopicBivariate data
TypeCalculate summary statistics (Sxx, Syy, Sxy)

  1. A random sample of 50 salmon was caught by a scientist. He recorded the length \(l \mathrm {~cm}\) and weight \(w \mathrm {~kg}\) of each salmon.
The following summary statistics were calculated from these data.
\(\sum l = 4027 \quad \sum l ^ { 2 } = 327754.5 \quad \sum w = 357.1 \quad \sum l w = 29330.5 \quad S _ { w w } = 289.6\)
  1. Find \(S _ { l l }\) and \(S _ { l w }\)
  2. Calculate, to 3 significant figures, the product moment correlation coefficient between \(l\) and \(w\).
  3. Give an interpretation of your coefficient.