IX. —CORRELATION. 123
+034 x 645/298 = 0-74, and the regression equation accordingly
z=0'74y, or
X=139+0747Y,
the standard error made in using the equation for estimating X
from Y being 0, o/T = 72= 6-07.
This is the equation of greatest practical interest, telling us
that, as we pass from one district to another, a rise of 1 in the
ratio of the numbers relieved in their own homes to the numbers
relieved in the workhouse corresponds on an average to a rise of
0-74 in the percentage in receipt of relief. The result is such as
to create a presumption in favour of the view that the giving of
out-relief tends to increase the numbers relieved, and this can be
taken as a working hypothesis for further investigation.
The student should work out the second regression equation,
and check both by calculating the means of the principal rows
and columns, and drawing a diagram like figs. 36, 37, and 38.
Example iii., Table IX.—(Unpublished data ; measurements by
G. U. Yule.) The two variables are (1) X, the length of a motherfrond
 of duckweed (Lemna minor); (2) Y, the length of the
daughter-frond. The motherfrond was measured when the
daughter-frond separated from it, and the daughter-frond when
its first daughter-frond separated. Measures were taken from
camera drawings made with the Zeiss-Abbé camera under a low
power, the actual magnification being 24 : 1. The units of length
in the tabulated measurements are millimetres on the drawings.
The arbitrary origin for both X and ¥ was taken at 105 mm.
The following are the values found for the constants of the single
distributions :—
§= -1'058 intervals= — 63 mm. M,= 98'7 mm. on drawing.
= 4°11 mm. actual.
oz= 2°'828 intervals= 17'0 mm. on drawing= 0°707 mm. actual.
#=-0208 , =- 12mm. My=103"8 mm. on drawing.
= 4°32 mm. actual.
oy= 3°08¢ , = 185mm. ondrawing= 0771 mm. actual,
The values of & are entered in every compartment. of the
table as before, and the frequencies then collected, according to
the magnitude and sign of &n, in columns 2 and 3 of Table IXa.
The entries in these two columns are next checked by adding to
the totals the frequency in the row and column for which &, is
zero, and seeing that it gives the total number of observations
(266). The numbers in column 4 are given by deducting the
entries in column 3 from those in column 2. The totals so
obtained are multiplied by & (column 1) and the products entered

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