Posted: January 8th, 2016

Depending on whether your data meet the conditions for bivariate normality, select the appropriate statistical method to test whether there is a correlation between the two variables.

Choose one of your datasets, clearly label the explanatory variable (X) and the response variable (Y), and test if these data meet two of the conditions of bivariate normality: 1) shape of the scatter plot, 2) normality of the frequency distribution for X and Y. Use proper histogram design rules for 2)

Depending on whether your data meet the conditions for bivariate normality, select the appropriate statistical method to test whether there is a correlation between the two variables.