CORREL

Returns the correlation coefficient of two cell ranges.

Syntax

=CORREL(CellRange1, CellRange2)

Arguments

Name	Description
CellRange1	A cell range which defines x numbers. No number values are ignored.
CellRange2	A cell range which defines y numbers. No number values are ignored.

Return

A number representing the correlation between all x and y values.

Examples

Formula	Result	Comment
=CORREL(A2:A6,B2:B6)	0.997054486	with cell values A2: 3, A3: 2, A4: 4, A5: 5, A6: 6 and B2: 9, B3: 7, B4: 12, B5: 15, B6: 17
=CORREL(A2:A4,B2:B6)	#NA!	number of of given x and y values are not equal
=CORREL(A7:A12,B2:B6)	#DIV0!	no x or y values