15th February 2024

A group of researchers are looking for non-invasive methods to determine the severity of pneumonia.

A group of researchers are looking for non-invasive methods to determine the severity of pneumonia. They are attempting to establish the correlation between the patient’s FEV1 values from spirometry and their WCC at the time of spirometry. 

Assuming a normal distribution and linear relationship between both variables, which of the following statistical tests is most appropriate?