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Save this program under the name POLYR, to emphasize calculation of the
correlation coefficient r.
Using the POLYR program for values of p between 2 and 6 produce the
following table of values of the correlation coefficient, r, and the sum of square
errors, SSE:
While the correlation coefficient is very close to 1.0 for all values of p in the
table, the values of SSE vary widely. The smallest value of SSE corresponds to p
= 4. Thus, you could select the preferred polynomial data fitting for the
original x-y data as:
p
2
0.9971908
3
0.9999768
4
0.9999999
5
0.9999999
6
0.9999998
y = 20.92-2.61x-1.52x
Tag result as SSE
Close sub-program 4
Close sub-program 3
Close sub-program 2
Close sub-program 1
Close main program
r
10731140.01
88619.36
8.92
432.60
2
+6.05x
SSE
7.48
3
4
+3.51x
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