For 14 baseball teams the correlation with number of wins i

For 14 baseball teams , the correlation with number of wins in the regular season is 0.51 for shutouts, 0.61 for hits made, -0.70 for runs allowed and -0.56 for homeruns allowed.

Which variable has the strongest linear association with number of wins?

shutouts, runs allowed, homeruns allowed, or hits made

Solution

Which variable has the strongest linear association with number of wins?

runs allowed

because it has the value of correlation more bigger, even that is negative , the negative only means that the correlation is inverse, but that is the value that is more closer to -1 ( in this case)