Re: ISI 2008 MATH PROBLEM...

Posted by Amrita on Mar 30, 2015; 11:19am
URL: http://discussion-forum.276.s1.nabble.com/ISI-2008-MATH-PROBLEM-tp7596028p7596036.html

dear rajat,
 correlation coefficient measures the degree of linear relationship between two variables.
since here the equation is itself linear we will get -1 or +1.
like 2x+3y-1=0
here x and y have the same sign. so it wl be -1. again if it would had been 2x-3y-1=0 it would had been 1.