1. Take the Galton dataset and find the mean, standard deviation and correlation between the parental and child heights.
library(UsingR)
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## Loading required package: MASS
## Loading required package: HistData
## Warning: package 'HistData' was built under R version 4.2.3
## Loading required package: Hmisc
## Warning: package 'Hmisc' was built under R version 4.2.3
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## Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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##     format.pval, units
data("galton")
head(galton)
##   child parent
## 1  61.7   70.5
## 2  61.7   68.5
## 3  61.7   65.5
## 4  61.7   64.5
## 5  61.7   64.0
## 6  62.2   67.5
summary(galton)
##      child           parent     
##  Min.   :61.70   Min.   :64.00  
##  1st Qu.:66.20   1st Qu.:67.50  
##  Median :68.20   Median :68.50  
##  Mean   :68.09   Mean   :68.31  
##  3rd Qu.:70.20   3rd Qu.:69.50  
##  Max.   :73.70   Max.   :73.00
cor(galton )
##            child    parent
## child  1.0000000 0.4587624
## parent 0.4587624 1.0000000
  1. Center the parent and child variables and verify that the centered variable means are 0.
galton
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x = galton$parent
y = galton$child
x[1 : 10]
##  [1] 70.5 68.5 65.5 64.5 64.0 67.5 67.5 67.5 66.5 66.5
y[1 : 10]
##  [1] 61.7 61.7 61.7 61.7 61.7 62.2 62.2 62.2 62.2 62.2
xc = x - mean(x)
xc = x - mean(x, na.rm = TRUE)
mean(xc)
## [1] 9.775954e-16
  1. Rescale the parent and child variables and verify that the scaled variable standard deviations are 1.
x / sd(x)
##   [1] 39.44424 38.32525 36.64677 36.08728 35.80753 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576
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## [761] 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576
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## [777] 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.20626
## [785] 37.20626 37.20626 37.20626 36.64677 36.64677 36.64677 36.64677 36.64677
## [793] 40.56322 40.56322 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 39.44424 39.44424
## [801] 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
## [809] 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
## [817] 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
## [825] 38.88474 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525
## [833] 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525
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## [849] 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 36.64677 36.64677
## [857] 40.84297 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322
## [865] 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373 40.00373
## [873] 40.00373 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
## [881] 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
## [889] 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 38.32525 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576 37.76576
## [897] 36.64677 40.84297 40.84297 40.84297 40.56322 40.56322 40.00373 40.00373
## [905] 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.32525
## [913] 38.32525 38.32525 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.56322 40.00373 40.00373
## [921] 39.44424 39.44424 39.44424 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474 38.88474
xs = x / sd(x)
sd(xs)
## [1] 1
  1. Normalize the parental and child heights. Verify that the normalized variables have mean 0 and standard deviation 1 and take the correlation between them.
x[1 : 10]
##  [1] 70.5 68.5 65.5 64.5 64.0 67.5 67.5 67.5 66.5 66.5
y[1 : 10]
##  [1] 61.7 61.7 61.7 61.7 61.7 62.2 62.2 62.2 62.2 62.2
xn = (x - mean(x)) / sd(x)
yn = (y - mean(y)) / sd(y)
mean(xn)
## [1] 5.501733e-16
mean(yn)
## [1] 2.183943e-16
sd(xn)
## [1] 1
sd(yn)
## [1] 1
cor(xn, yn)
## [1] 0.4587624
cor(x, y)
## [1] 0.4587624
xn[1]
## [1] 1.226302
yn[1]
## [1] -2.53718