A greenhouse trial recorded, for each of plots, the daily hours of sunlight and the yield in grams. The raw pairs have been lost, but the lab notebook still holds the totals:
Pearson's correlation coefficient is
and the three deviation sums it needs can be rebuilt from raw totals using
What is Pearson's for sunlight and yield?
Round your answer to 3 decimal places.
Once you get it right, the reasoning behind the answer shows up here.
Hover over a point to inspect its centered deviations and cross-product!
The Pearson r numerator is the sum of (x − x̄)(y − ȳ). When both variables deviate in the same direction — both above their means, or both below — the product is positive, pushing r towards +1.