Monday, July 27, 2009

Correlation matrix

          C1       C2       C3       C4       C5       C6       C7       C8       C9      C10
C1 1.000
C2 0.274 1.000
C3 -0.134 -0.269 1.000
C4 0.201 -0.153 0.075 1.000
C5 -0.129 -0.166 0.278 -0.011 1.000
C6 -0.095 0.280 -0.348 -0.378 -0.009 1.000
C7 0.171 -0.122 0.288 0.086 0.193 0.002 1.000
C8 0.219 0.242 -0.380 -0.227 -0.551 0.324 -0.082 1.000
C9 0.518 0.238 0.002 0.082 -0.015 0.304 0.347 -0.013 1.000
C10 0.299 0.568 0.165 -0.122 -0.106 -0.169 0.243 0.014 0.352 1.000


This is an example of a random correlation matrix. These are common in scientific studies. There are two triangles in a correlation matrix
but that would be redundant to add since they are mirror images of one another.

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