Edexcel S1 — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicBivariate data
TypeCalculate r from summary statistics

  1. Plot a scatter diagram showing these data. The student wanted to investigate further whether or not her data provided evidence of an increase in temperature in June each year. Using \(Y\) for the number of years since 1993 and \(T\) for the mean temperature, she calculated the following summary statistics. $$\Sigma Y = 28 , \quad \Sigma T = 182.5 , \quad \Sigma Y ^ { 2 } = 140 , \quad \Sigma T ^ { 2 } = 4173.93 , \quad \Sigma Y T = 644.7 .$$
  2. Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient for these data.
  3. Comment on your result in relation to the student's enquiry.