UNIT III

Correlation
Q1. Calculate Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of correlation from the following and interpret the value.
Roll.no. of Students 1 2 3 4 5
Marks in Accountancy 48 35 17 23 47
Marks in statistics 45 20 40 25 45
Ans:- +0.429

Q2. Making use of the data summarized below, calculate the coefficient of correlation.
CASE A B C D E F G H
X1 10 6 9 10 12 13 11 9
X2 9 4 6 9 11 13 8 4
Ans: +0.896

Q3. The following table gives indices of industrial production of registered un-employed. Calculation
the value of the coefficient so obtained.
Year 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
Index of Production 100 102 104 107 105 112 103 99
No. unemployed 15 12 13 11 12 12 19 26
Ans: -0.619

Q4. Calculate Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of correlation from the following.

X 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
Y 30 50 60 80 100 110 130
Ans: + 0.997

Q5. The following table gives the distribution of items of production and also the relatively defectives
items among them, according to size groups. Find the correlation coefficient between size and defect
in quality.
Size of group 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21
No. of Items 200 270 340 360 400 300
No. of Defective items 150 162 170 180 180 114
Ans: + 0.997

Q6. The Ranking of 10 students in two subjects A and B are as follow:

A 6 5 3 10 2 4 9 7 8 1
B 3 8 4 9 1 6 10 7 5 2
Ans: 0.782

Q7. The two ladies were asked to rank 7 different types of lipsticks. The ranks given them by as
follow:-
Lipsticks A B C D E F G
Neelu 2 1 4 3 5 7 6
Neena 1 3 2 4 5 6 7
Ans: 0.786

Q8. The Ranking of 10 students in two subjects A and B are as follow:

Ist Judge 1 6 5 10 3 2 4 9 7 8
2nd judge 3 5 8 4 7 10 2 1 6 9
3rd Judge 6 4 9 8 1 2 3 10 5 7
Ans: R (I and II) -0.212, R (II and III) = -0.297, R (I and III) = 0.636
Q9. Quotations of Index no. of security prices of a certain joint stock company are given below:
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Debenture Price 97.8 99.2 98.8 98.3 98.4 96.7 97.1
Share Price 73.2 85.8 78.9 75.8 77.2 87.2 83.8
Ans: -0.107

Q10. Calculate the spearman’s coefficient of correlation between marks assigned to ten students by
judges X and Y in a certain competitive test as shown:
S.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Marks of X Judge 52 53 42 60 45 41 37 38 25 27
Marks of Y judge 65 68 43 38 77 48 35 30 25 50
Ans: 0.539

Q11. Calculate the coefficient of correlation from the following data by the spearman’s Rank
difference method:
Price of Tea (Rs.) 75 88 95 70 60 80 81 50
Price of coffee (Rs.) 120 134 150 115 110 140 142 100
Ans: 0.929

Q12. Obtain the rank correlation coefficient between the variable X and Y from the following pairs of
Observed values.
X 50 55 65 50 55 60 50 65 70 75
Y 110 110 115 125 140 115 130 120 115 160
Ans: 0.155

Q13. The following data relate to age of employees and the number of days they were reported sick in
a month.
Age (X) 30 32 35 40 48 50 52 55 57 61
Sick in days (Y) 1 0 2 5 2 4 6 5 7 8
Ans: 0.87

Q14. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation between age and playing habits form the data
given below.
Age 20 21 22 23 24 25
No. of Students 500 400 300 240 200 160
Regular players 400 300 180 96 60 24
Ans: 0.005