Correlation Coefficient
المؤلف:
Acton, F. S.
المصدر:
Analysis of Straight-Line Data. New York: Dover, 1966.
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Correlation Coefficient
The correlation coefficient, sometimes also called the cross-correlation coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), Pearson's 
, the Perason product-moment correlation coefficient (PPMCC), or the bivariate correlation, is a quantity that gives the quality of a least squares fitting to the original data. To define the correlation coefficient, first consider the sum of squared values 
, 
, and 
of a set of 
data points 
about their respective means,
These quantities are simply unnormalized forms of the variances and covariance of 
and 
given by
For linear least squares fitting, the coefficient 
in
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(16)
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is given by
and the coefficient 
in
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(19)
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is given by
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(20)
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The correlation coefficient 
(sometimes also denoted 
) is then defined by
The correlation coefficient is also known as the product-moment coefficient of correlation or Pearson's correlation. The correlation coefficients for linear fits to increasingly noisy data are shown above.
The correlation coefficient has an important physical interpretation. To see this, define
![A=[sumx^2-nx^_^2]^(-1)](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/CorrelationCoefficient/NumberedEquation4.gif) |
(23)
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and denote the "expected" value for 
as 
. Sums of 
are then
The sum of squared errors is then
and the sum of squared residuals is
But
so
and
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(53)
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The square of the correlation coefficient 
is therefore given by
In other words, 
is the proportion of 
which is accounted for by the regression.
If there is complete correlation, then the lines obtained by solving for best-fit 
and 
coincide (since all data points lie on them), so solving (◇) for 
and equating to (◇) gives
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(57)
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Therefore, 
and 
, giving
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(58)
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The correlation coefficient is independent of both origin and scale, so
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where
REFERENCES:
Acton, F. S. Analysis of Straight-Line Data. New York: Dover, 1966.
Edwards, A. L. "The Correlation Coefficient." Ch. 4 in An Introduction to Linear Regression and Correlation. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, pp. 33-46, 1976.
Gonick, L. and Smith, W. "Regression." Ch. 11 in The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, pp. 187-210, 1993.
Kenney, J. F. and Keeping, E. S. "Linear Regression and Correlation." Ch. 15 in Mathematics of Statistics, Pt. 1, 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, pp. 252-285, 1962.
Press, W. H.; Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. "Linear Correlation." §14.5 in Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 630-633, 1992.
Snedecor, G. W. and Cochran, W. G. "The Sample Correlation Coefficient 
" and "Properties of 
." §10.1-10.2 in Statistical Methods, 7th ed. Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, pp. 175-178, 1980.
Spiegel, M. R. "Correlation Theory." Ch. 14 in Theory and Problems of Probability and Statistics, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 294-323, 1992.
Whittaker, E. T. and Robinson, G. "The Coefficient of Correlation for Frequency Distributions which are not Normal." §166 in The Calculus of Observations: A Treatise on Numerical Mathematics, 4th ed. New York: Dover, pp. 334-336, 1967.
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