Friday, May 28, 2010

defintions- statistics

percentile rank- indicates the persentage of scores less than or equal to a particular score, is the proportion of scores in a distribution that a specific score is greater than or equal to.

normal curve- a graph resembling a bell-shaped curve

correlation coefficient- the relationship between two set of data

negative correlation- as one variable increases the other decreases or as one variable decreases so does the other

positive correlation- as one variable increases so does the other or as one variable decreases so does the other

r-value- correlation coefficiant

zero correlation- the variables have nothing to do with each other, so there is no relation between the two sets of data

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