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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 33, 2005 - Issue 10
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The Sampling Variance of r(X, Y) for Unrelated X and Y: A Simple Algebraic Demonstration

Denis Allaire Département de Psychologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Louis Laurencelle Département des Sciences de l'Activité Physique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada; Département des Sciences de l'Activité Physique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, P.O. Box 500, Trois-Rivières, Que., G9A 5H7, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 2389-2392 | Published online: 15 Feb 2007
 
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Abstract

A demonstration of the variance of Pearson's correlation coefficient r for samples of unrelated X, Y variables is laid out in elementary algebra. An approximation of var(r) for samples of ρ-related binormal variables is also provided.

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