Correlation, regression lines, and moments of inertia

American Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 343-345

  Nelsen, Roger B ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Physics; Spearman s rho; Standard deviation lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032341431     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480593     Document Type: Article

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