It is one of the best means for evaluating the strength of a relationship. Your height and weight is used to calculate body mass index or bmi.
Allometric Scaling Of Weight To Height And Resulting Body
Correlation between height and weight data. However there is only one correct answer. The analysis included 72 subgroups with a total of 385232 adults aged 25 years and older. The value of r for this data set is 076. A value of 0 indicates no relationship between the variables. As we expect this is much higher than. Its not a very strong relationship but it accurately represents our data.
Num 242 162 213 220 206. For example we know that the correlation between height and weight is approximately r70 if we square this number to find the coefficient of determination r squared49 thus 49 percent of ones weight is directly accounted for ones height and vice versa. The correlation coefficient should accurately reflect the strength of the relationship. A value of 1 indicates a perfect correlation between the variables. Pearsons correlation coefficient for height 096 p0001 weight 099 p0001 and bmi 099 p0001 were all high as expected figure 1a c. In the example data set above the scatterplot and regression line lead us to believe there is a correlation between height and weight.
Num 738 688 741 717 699. We examined the weight height relationship in 25 diverse population samples of men and women from the us europe and asia. Although bmi was highly correlated with weight in all studies a significant negative correlation between bmi and height was found in 31 out of 40 subgroups of men r 0004 to 0133 and 32 of 32 groups of women r 0016 to 0205. The pearson correlation coefficient is used to measure the strength of a linear association between two variables where the value r 1 means a perfect positive correlation and the value r 1 means a perfect negataive correlation. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2. Its calculated by using your weight in pounds divided by your height in inches squared and then multiplied by 703.
It reports whats in the dataframe strhtweightdf dataframe. Factor w 2 levels femalemale. Significant differences in reporting of weight height and bmi were not observed when the data were examined by age race or measured bmi. The basic statistical analysis of survey respondents provides that among weight and feet length feet length has stronger relationship with height as compared to weight and the coefficient of. So for example you could use this test to find out whether peoples height and weight are correlated they will be. Take a look at the correlation between the height and weight data 0694.
A normal bmi is 185249. Less than 185 is underweight. Pearson correlation coefficient calculator.