Pearson correlation coefficient
type of coefficient
(Redirected from Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient)
Pearson's correlation is a mathematical formula used to calculate correlation coefficients between two datasets. Most computer programs have a command to calculate this such as CORREL(dataset x: dataset y). You can calculate this by...
- Step 1: Find the mean of x, and the mean of y
- Step 2: Subtract the mean of x from every x value (call them "a"), and subtract the mean of y from every y value (call them "b")
- Step 3: Calculate: ab, a2 and b2 for every value
- Step 4: Sum up ab, sum up a2 and sum up b2
- Step 5: Divide the sum of ab by the square root of [(sum of a2) × (sum of b2)]
Developed by Karl Pearson in the 1880's,