Correlation and Regression

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Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude

Exam Weightage

4-6 Marks

Key Topics

Correlation Coefficient, Regression Equations

This chapter covers Correlation Coefficient, Regression Equations and is part of Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude in the CA Foundation exam.

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This topic carries 4-6 Marks weightage. Focus on understanding core concepts rather than memorizing.

All 158 Questions

3615

If the plotted points in a scatter diagram are evenly distributed, then the correlation is

3616

Speed of an automobile and the distance required to stop the car after applying brakes correlation is

3617

A relationship $r^2 = 1 - \frac{500}{300}$ is not possible

3618

If the plotted points in a scatter diagram lie from upper left to lower right, then correlation is

3619

Scatter diagram does not help us to:

3620

If the data points of $(X, Y)$ series on a scatter diagram lie along a straight line that goes downwards as $X$- values move from left to right, then the data exhibit ---- correlation.

3621

If the plotted point in a scatter diagram lie from lower left to upper right then correction is:

3622

Scattered diagram is used to plot

3623

The covariance between two variables is

3624

Correlation analysis aims at

3625

When $r = 1$, all the points in a scatter diagram would lie

3626

Price and Demand are the example of

3627

For a $4 \times 7$ classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is:

3628

Below scatter diagram shows what type of correlation

3629

For a $p \times q$ classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is

3630

For a $p \times q$ bivariate frequency table, the maximum number of marginal distributions is

3631

If the plotted points in a scatter diagram lie from upper left to lower right, then the correlation is

3632

For a $m \times n$ two way or bivariate frequency table, the maximum number of marginal distributions is

3633

A scatter diagram of two variables developing a pattern of multiple circular rings represents which kind of correlation?

3634

For a $(m \times n)$ classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is

3635

$Correlation coefficient is _________ of the units of measurements.$

3636

If the correlation coeff. between the variables $X$ and $Y$ is $0.5$, then the correlation coefficient between the variables $2X - 4$ and $3 - 2Y$ is

3637

Then Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is

3638

If the regression line of $y$ on $x$ is given by $y = x + 2$ and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is $0.5$ then $\frac{V_y}{V_x}$ =

3639

What is the coefficient of correlation from the following data?X123456Y543210

3640

For the set of observations $(1,2),(2,5),(3,7),(4,8),(5,10))$ the value of Karl-person's coefficient of correlation is approximately given by

3641

The coefficient of correlation between $x$ and $y$ is $0.5$ the covariance is $16$, variance of $x$ is $16$ then standard deviation of $y$ is

3642

If the sum of the product of the deviations of $X$ and $Y$ from their means is zero the correlation coefficient between $X$ and $Y$ is:

3643

The sum of square of any real positive quantities and its reciprocal is never less than:

3644

Karl Pearson Correlation Coefficient method is used for -

3645

Which of the following is used to find correlation between two qualitative characteristics

3646

Pearson's Correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$ is $2$

3647

$______ may be defined as the ratio of covariance between the two variables to the product of the standard deviation of the two variables$

3648

If $cov(x,y) = -2.15$, $S_x = 1.30$, $S_y = 2.50$, then correlation coefficient $r$ is

3649

The range of the coefficient of correlation is

3650

The variance of two variables '$x$' and '$y$' are $16$ and $25$ and covariance between '$x$' and '$y$' is $18.5$. Another two variables '$u$' and '$v$' are defined as $u = (x-3)/2$ and $v = (y-2)/3$, then coefficient of correlation between '$u$' and '$v$' is

3651

If the relation between $x$ and $u$ is $3x + 4u + 7 = 0$ and the correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$ is $-0.6$, then what is the correlation coefficient between $u$ and $y$?

3652

When $r = 0$ then $cov(x,y)$ is equal to

3653

Correlation coefficient $r_{xy}$, $b_{yx}$ and $b_{xy}$ are all have ______ signs

3654

$Correlation Co-efficient is ______ of the units of measurements$

3655

If for two variable $x$ and $y$, the covariance, variance of $x$ and variance of $y$ are $40, 16$ and $256$ respectively, what is the value of the correlation coefficient?

3656

The coefficient of correlation between $x$ and $y$ is the ______ of the two regression coefficients

3657

If the correlation coefficient between $u$ and $v$ are $2u + 4 - 0$ and $4v + 16u + 11 = 0$

3658

If the coefficient of correlation between $x$ and $y$ is $0.6$. If $x$ and $y$ values are multiplied by $-1$, then coefficient of correlation will be

3659

If the relation between two variables $X$ and $Y$ in given by $2X+3Y+4=0$, then the Value of the correlation coefficient between $X$ and $Y$ is

3660

There are two equations: $m + 3p + 2 = 0$ and $6n + 2q - 1$. Correlation coefficients for $p$ and $q$ is $0.5$. Find the correlation coefficients of $m$ and $n$

3661

If the covariance between two variables is $20$ and the variance of one of the variables is $16$, what would be the variance of the other variable?

3662

The covariance between two variables X and Y is $8.4$ and their variances are $25$ and $36$ resp. Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation

3663

If correlation co-efficient r between x and y is $0.5$ then r between x and -y is

3664

If the coefficient of correlation between x and y is $0.5$, the covariance is $16$ and the Standard Deviation of y is

3665

The covariance between two variables X and Y is $8.4$ and their variances are $25$ and $36$ respectively. Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation between them.

3666

If r is the Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation in a bivariate distribution the two regression lines are at right angles when

3667

If $r = 0.6$ then coefficient of non-determination is

3668

The correlation between two variables x and y is found to be $0.4$. What is the correlation between $2x$ and $(-y)$?

3669

$Correlation Co-efficient is _________ of the units of measurements.$

3670

If for two variable x and y, the covariance, variance of x and variance of y are $40$, $16$ and $256$ respectively, what is the value of the correlation coefficient?

3671

If $r = 0.5$, $\sum xy = 120$, $\sigma_y = 8$, $\sum x^2 = 90$, then value of n is equal to _________ where $\sum xy = \sum (x - \bar{x})(y - \bar{y})$, $\sum x^2 = \sum (x - \bar{x})^2$

3672

The maximum value of correlation coefficient is

3673

If the coefficient of correlation between x and y is $0.5$, the covariance is $16$ and if the standard deviation of x is $4$ then Standard deviation of y is:

3674

Rank correlation coefficient lies between

3705

The intersecting point of the two regression lines: $y$ on $x$ and $x$ on $y$ is

3675

Given the following series: X 10 13 12 15 8 15 Y 12 16 18 16 7 18 The rank correlation coefficient r = $1 - \frac{6 \sum d^2 + \sum \frac{m_i(m_i^2 - 1)}{12}}{n(n^2 - 1)}$

3676

Determine Spearman's rank correlation coefficient from the given data $\sum d^2 = 30, n = 10$.

3677

The coefficient of rank correlation between the ranking of following 6 students in two subjects Mathematics and Statistics is: Mathematics | Statistics 3 | 6 5 | 4 8 | 9 4 | 8 7 | 1 10 | 2

3678

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient $r_s$ is given by

3679

For a group of $10$ students the sum of squares of difference in ranks for physics and chemistry marks was $60$, what is the value of rank correlation coefficient (Choose the nearest value)

3680

Spearman's Correlation Coefficient is used to check

3681

If the sum of squares of difference between ranks, given by two judges A and B of $8$ students is $21$, what is the value of rank correlation coefficient?

3682

If three judges appointed for a beauty competition, then how many different rank correlation coefficients are required to analyse the judge competition.

3683

If the sum of squares of difference in ranks, given by two judges A and B of $8$ students is $21$. What is the value of rank correlation coefficient?

3684

In a bivariate distribution if the rank correlation coefficient $r = 0.12$, $\Sigma d^2 = 146$. Then the no. of observed pairs $(N)$ is

3685

The coefficient of rank correlation between the ranking of following $6$ students in two subjects Mathematics and Statistics is:Mathematics | Statistics--- | ---$3$ | $6\displaystyle 5$ | $4\displaystyle 8$ | $9\displaystyle 4$ | $8\displaystyle 7$ | $1\displaystyle 10$ | $2$

3686

The sum of the squares of differences in ranks of marks obtained in Physics and Chemistry by $10$ students in a test is $150$, then the coefficient of rank correlation by :

3687

If the sum of squares of the rank difference in mathematics and physics marks of $10$ students is $22$, then the coefficient of rank correlation is:

3688

The coefficient of rank correlation of marks obtained by $10$ students in English and Economics was found to be $0.5$. It was later discovered that the difference in ranks in the two subjects obtained by one student was wrongly taken as $3$ instead of $7$. Find correct coefficient of rank correlation.

3689

In the method of Concurrent Deviations, only the directions of change (Positive direction/Negative direction) in the variables are taken into account for calculation of

3690

If concurrent coefficient is $1/\sqrt{3}$ and number of concurrent deviation is $6$ for $n$ pairs of data. Find total number of pairs?

3691

Standard Error of Correlation coefficient

3692

Probable Error can be obtained using Correlation coefficient as

3693

What is spurious correlation?

3694

If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is $0.7$ then the percentage of variation unaccounted for is

3695

If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is $-0.9$, then the coefficient of determination is

3696

For $10$ pairs of observations, number of concurrent deviations was found to be $4$. What is the value of the coefficient of concurrent deviation?

3697

For $n$ pairs of observations, the coefficient of concurrent deviation is calculated as $1/\sqrt{3}$. If there are $6$ concurrent deviations, $n=$

3698

The two line of regression interested at the point

3699

If two lines of regression are $x+2y-5=0$ and $2x+3y-8=0$, then the regression line of $y$ on $x$ is:

3700

If the two regression lines are $3X=Y$ and $8Y=6X$, then the value of correlation coefficient is

3701

The regression coefficient is independent of the change of:

3702

A.M. of regression coefficient is

3703

If two line of regression are $x + 2y - 5 = 0$ and $2x + 3y - 8 = 0$. So $x + 2y - 5 = 0$ is

3704

Find the coefficient of correlation. $2x + 3y = 2$ $4x + 3y = 4$

3706

Given that the variance of $x$ is equal to the twice of square of standard deviation of $y$ and the regression line of $y$ on $x$ is $y = 40 + 0.5 (x - 30)$. Then regression line of $x$ on $y$ is

3707

Regression coefficients remain unchanged due to

3708

If $y = 9x$ and $x = 0.01y$ then $r$ is equal to:

3709

The straight - line graph of the linear equation $y = a + bx$, slope is horizontal if:

3710

If $b_{yx} = -1.6$, $b_{xy} = -0.4$ then $r_{xy}$ will be:

3711

If the slope of the regression line is calculated to be $5.5$ and the intercept $15$ then the value of $Y$ if $X$ is $6$ is:

3712

For any two variables $X$ and $Y$ the regression equations are given as $2x + 5y - 9 = 0$ and $3x - y - 5 = 0$. What are the A.M. of $X$ and $Y$?

3713

The intersecting point of two regression lines falls at $X$-axis. If the mean of $X$-values is $16$, the standard deviations of $X$ and $Y$ are respectively, $3$ and $4$, then the mean of $Y$-value is

3714

The regression coefficients remain unchanged due

3715

The equations of the two lines of regression are $4x + 3y + 7 = 0$ and $3x + 4y + 8 = 0$. Find the correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$?

3716

The regression equations are $2x + 3y + 1 = 0$ and $5x + 6y + 1 = 0$, then Mean of $x$ and $y$ are:

3717

If $b_{yx} = 0.5$, $b_{xy} = 0.46$ then the value of correlation coefficient $r$ is:

3718

For variables $X$ and $Y$, we collect the four observations with $\Sigma X = 10; \Sigma Y = 14; \Sigma X^2 = 65; \Sigma Y^2 = 5$ and $\Sigma XY = 3$. What is the regression line of $Y$ on $X$?

3719

The regression lines will be perpendicular to each other when the value of $r$ is

3720

If the regression equations are $x + 2y - 5 = 0$ and $2x + 3y - 8 = 0$, then the mean of $x$ and the mean of $y$ are __________, respectively.

3721

If the regression line of $y$ on $x$ and of $x$ on $y$ are given by $10x - 20y = -290$ and $20y - 10x = -4x$. Then the arithmetic means of $x$ and $y$ are

3722

If the coefficient of correlation is $0.8$ and regression coefficient $b_{xy} = 0.32$ then what is the value of regression coefficient $b_{yx}$?

3723

If the Regression coefficient ($r_{xy}$) of $y$ on $x$ is greater than unity, then other Regression coefficient ($r_{yx}$) of $x$ on $y$ is:

3724

If $4y - 6x = 18$ is regression line of $y$ on $x$ and coefficient of correlation between $x$ and $y$ is $0.8$, then value of regression coefficient of $x$ on $y$ is?

3725

If the regression lines are $3x - 4y + 8 = 0$ and $4x - 3y = 1$, then the correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$ is __________.

3726

Which of the following statement is correct?

3727

Which of the following statement is correct regarding both of the two regression coefficients?

3728

Equations of two lines of regression are $4x + 3y = 7$ and $3x + 4y = 0$, the mean of $x$ and $y$ are

3729

If the two regression coefficients are $4$ and $0.16$, the percentage of unexplained variation is.

3730

If the two regression co-efficient are $4$ and $0.16$ the percentage of unexplained variation is:

3731

If the coefficient of determination is $0.64$ and the regression coefficient of $x$ on $y$ is $4$ then the regression coefficient $y$ on $x$ is.

3732

For two variables $x$ and $y$ with the same mean the regression equation are $y = 2x - \alpha$ and $x = 2y - \beta$, what is the value of common mean

3733

If two variables are independent their covariance is

3734

In a bivariate population, the linear regression lines $2x + y = 0$ and $y = x$ then the coefficient of correlation is

3735

The covariance between two variables $x$ and $y$ is $72$. The variances of $x$ and $y$ are $144$ and $81$. The coefficient of correlation is

3736

If $r = 0.6$ then the coefficient of non-determination

3737

The two lines of regression become identical when

3738

The regression coefficients remain unchanged due to

3739

If the regression coefficient of $y$ on $x$ is $0.6$ and the correlation coefficient $0.6$ and the SD is $y$ is $4$, the SD of $x$ is

3740

If $U + 5x = 6$ and $3y - 7v = 20$ and correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$ is $0.58$ then what be the correlation coefficient between $U$ and $V$?

3741

If the regression coefficient of $y$ on $x$ is $1.5$ and the variances of $x$ and $y$ is $4$ and $9$ respectively then the correlation coefficient is

3742

If $y = 3x + 4$ is the regression line $y$ on $x$ and the arithmetic mean of $x$ is $-1$, what is the arithmetic mean of $y$?

3743

If the coefficient of determination is $0.64$ and the regression coefficient of $x$ on $y$ is $4$ then the regression coefficient $y$ on $x$ is

3744

The regression equation $x$ and $y$ is $3x + 2y = 100$, the value of $b_{xy}$

3745

If the regression line of $y$ on $x$ is given by $y = x + 2$ and $5x + 6y = -1$ then the arithmetic means of $x$ and $y$ are given by.

3746

The coefficients of correlation between two variables $x$ and $y$ is the simple ______ of two regression coefficients.

3747

For a positive and perfectly correlated random variables, regression coefficient of $x$ on $y$ is $1.4$ and the SD of $x$ is $2$, the variance of $y$ is

3748

If $r = 0$, regression lines are:

3749

If the two regression lines are $2x + 3y - 8 = 0$, then regression line of $y$ on $x$ is:

3750

If the regression line of $y$ on $x$ and of $x$ on $y$ are given by $2x + 3y = -1$ and $5x + 6y = -1$, then the arithmetic means of $x$ and $y$ are given by

3751

If the two regression lines are $3X = Y$ and $8Y = 6X$ then the value of correlation coefficient is:

3752

The regression coefficients remain unchanged by

3753

AM of regression coefficient is:

3754

Consider the two regression lines $3x + 2y = 26$ & $6x + y = 31$. Find the mean values of $x$ and $y$.

3755

If regression line of $y$ on $x$ is given by $y = x + 2$ and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is $0.5$ then $\frac{\sigma_y^2}{\sigma_x^2} =$

3756

If the regression line of $Y$ on $X$ is given by $Y = X + 2$ and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is $0.5$ then $\frac{\sigma_Y^2}{\sigma_X^2} =$

3757

When two lines of regression become identical if

3758

If $4y - 5x = 15$ is the regression line of $y$ on $x$ and the coefficient of correlation between $x$ and $y$ is $0.75$, what is the value of the regression coefficient of $x$ on $y$?

3759

The equations of the two lines of regression are $4x + 3y + 7 = 0$ and $3x + 4y + 8 = 0$. Find the correlation coefficient between $x$ and $y$.

3760

The regression equation are $2x + 3y + 1 = 0$ and $5x + 6y + 1 = 0$, then Mean of $x$ and $y$ respectively are

3761

If $b_{yx} = 0.5$, $b_{xy} = 0.45$ then the value of correlation coefficient is:

3762

If $Y$ is dependent variable and $X$ is independent variable and the S.D. of $X$ and $Y$ are $5$ and $8$ respectively and co-efficient of co-relation between $X$ and $Y$ is $0.8$. Find the Regression coefficient of $Y$ on $X$:

3763

In regression analysis, which of the following can be in the form of an index number?

3764

If both the regression coefficients are negative, what will be coefficient of correlation?

3765

If the regression equation of two variables are $5x - y = 4$ and $3x - 2y = 1$. Find the arithmetic means of $x$ and $y$

3766

Two regression lines are perpendicular each other of $r =$

3767

Given that $r = 0.4$ and $n = 81$, determine the limits for the population correlation coefficient.

3768

In case of "Insurance companies' profit" and "The number of claims they have to pay", there exists a:

3769

The coefficient of two variables is $0.9$, then coefficient of non-determination is

3770

If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is $0.8$ then the percentage of variation unaccounted for is

3771

Correlation between unrelated variables is not because of:

3772

If $r = 0.6$, then coefficient of non-determination is

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