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Basically, a correlation is a number between ─ 1 and + 1 that summarizes the relationship between two variables, which we will call X and Y.
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Quirk, T.J., Quirk, M., Horton, H. (2013). Correlation and Simple Linear Regression. In: Excel 2010 for Physical Sciences Statistics. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00630-7_6
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