In Pearson's Correlation Coefficient formula, the Greek symbol for Sum (backward E) has a small "n" preceeding it at half height. I think it's to be read something to the effect "Sum the following and perform the other operations in sequence for each set of varible in the list you're working from; or in other words... row by row from the 1st to as many as there are (this "n")."
Is that how I'd express this verbally? Been a long, long time since I've had to deal with the formula. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
