document.write( "Question 697384: if the correlation coefficient is 0.65, what is the sign of the slope of the regression line?
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if the correlation coefficient is 0.65, what is the sign of the slope of the regression line?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the sign is positive because if the correlation coefficient is positive, then the slope of the regression line is positive.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "They move closer to the regression line (which has a negative slope) since as r gets closer to +1 or -1, then the data gets closer to the regression line. \n" ); document.write( "
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