单项选择题
A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product. To do this, the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices. Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:
City Price ($) Sales
River Falls 1.30 100
Hudson 1.60 90
Ellsworth 1.80 90
Prescott 2.00 40
Rock Elm 2.40 38
Stillwater 2.90 32
what is the coefficient of correlation for these data?
A.– 0.8854
B.– 0.7839
C.0.7839
D.0.8854