In the largest acquisition ever RJR Nabisco ws bought out for $24.5
billion in a deal that reportedly reaped more than $700 million in
fees.  Pricing of professional services is a complex process.  The
data shown in Table 12.6 give a year’s large business deals in the
form of mergers, acquisitions, security offerings, and buybacks; the
deal values; the financial intermediary or the intermediaries for the
principal company or client in the deal; and the fee for each
intermediaries for the principal company or client in the deal’ and
the fee for each intermediary. Assume that the listing is a random
sample of large deals.
a.  Find the correlation coefficient between the value of the deal and
the fee for the intermediary (the total fee if there are two
intermediaries).
b.  Is there a significant linerar relationsship between deal values
and intermediaries feels from the deal.

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Request for Question Clarification by jeremymiles-ga on 30 Jun 2002 09:37 PDT

If you post the data, this is pretty straightforward to work out. 
Also, if you have access to MS Excel, and can type the data into that,
I can tell you how to do it from there.  Or, if you prefer, I can
direct you to a website that will show you how to work it out 'by
hand'.

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Request for Question Clarification by weisstho-ga on 30 Jun 2002 10:27 PDT

Is this a homework assignment?