Correlations

Question 1

What is correlation?

Answer 1

The measurement of a relationship between two or more variables

Question 2

What is a correlation coefficient?

Answer 2

Numerical representation of the strength and direction of relationship between two variables (-1 - 1 scale)

Question 3

What is a co-variable?

Answer 3

The variables that are investigated in a correlation

Question 4

What is a curvilinear relationship?

Answer 4

When the change between 2 variables is not constant (makes a curved line on a graph)

Question 5

What is a linear correlation?

Answer 5

The extent to which two variables are related

Question 6

What is a positive correlation?

Answer 6

When one variable increases, the other variable also increases

Question 7

What is a negative correlation?

Answer 7

When one variable increases, the other variable decreases

Question 8

What is zero correlation?

Answer 8

When there is no correlation between variables

Question 9

What is significance?

Answer 9

How sure a researcher is that results that are found are not accidental

Question 10

What would a strong correlation look like?

Answer 10

Points tend to cluster around a straight line