Dear R list, I have one very elementary question regrading correlation between two variables.
x = c(44,46,46,47,45,43,45,44) y = c(44,43,41,41,46,48,44,43) > cov(x, y) [1] -2.428571 However, if I try to calculate the covariance using the formula as covariance = sum((x-mean(x))*(y-mean(y)))/8 # no of of paired obs. = 8 or covariance = sum(x*y)/8-(mean(x)*mean(y)) gives covariance = 2.125 I am not able to figure out where I am going wrong w.r.t. the covariance formula. Kindly guide. Regards Vincy [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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