With the following data? set, how would I compute the correlation? coefficient, r =, and then determine whether there is a linear relation between x and y?
X 7 6 1 7 9 Critical Values for Correlation Coefficient
Y 3 7 6 9 5 n n
3 0.997 17 0.482
4 0.950 18 0.468
5 0.878 19 0.456
6 0.811 20 0.444
7 0.754 21 0.433
8 0.707 22 0.423
9 0.666 23 0.413
10 0.632 24 0.404
11 0.602 25 0.396
12 0.576 26 0.388
13 0.553 27 0.381
14 0.532 28 0.374
15 0.514 29 0.367
16 0.497 30 0.361