Development of statistical methods of correlation-regression analysis

Abstract

Measuring the degree of coupling between the processes of business is an important problem in the theory of statistics. Initially, the connection between the processes studied by means of statistical tables and balance sheets. In parallel, mathematical-statistical study of the direction of bonds. The invention belongs to the correlation method British biologist Francis Galton, and in the measurement of the degree of connection between the phenomena of much of the credit belongs to mathematics and statistics British Karl Pearson. In the development of this method played an important role such scholars as George U. Yule, Maurice G. Kendall, Gustav T. Fechner, A. Chuprov and others.