What is the strongest correlation in this matrix

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(a) Women in the sample, on average were as healthy as people nationally from both a physical and mental health perspective as indicated by the SD deviation of 10.0 and a mean of 50.0 based on the national average.

(b) The correlation is both above and below the diagonal.

(c) The strongest correlation in the matrix is the physical and mental health sample population with a physical health score with an r = -134 and mental health component score of r -133.

(d) What is the strongest correlation in this matrix is doctors' visit and physical health component.

(e) The weakest correlation in the matrix is body mass index (bmi) and mental health component

(f) In this analysis the variable with the strongest correlation with women's body mass index (bmi) is the number of doctors' visits.

Descriptive Statistics
	Mean	Std. Deviation	N
Number of doctor visits, past 12 mo	6.80	12.720	997
bmi	29.2226	7.37893	970
SF12: Physical Health Component Score, standardized	45.11422	10.840059	893
SF12: Mental Health Component Score, standardized	46.82843	10.806477	893

Correlations
		Number of doctor visits, past 12 mo	bmi	SF12: Physical Health Component Score, standardized	SF12: Mental Health Component Score, standardized
Number of doctor visits, past 12 mo	Pearson Correlation	1	.131^**	-.316^**	-.133^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.000	.000	.000
	N	997	967	890	890
bmi	Pearson Correlation	.131^**	1	-.134^**	-.078^*
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.000		.000	.022
	N	967	970	866	866
SF12: Physical Health Component Score, standardized	Pearson Correlation	-.316^**	-.134^**	1	.168^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.000	.000		.000
	N	890	866	893	893
SF12: Mental Health Component Score, standardized	Pearson Correlation	-.133^**	-.078^*	.168^**	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.000	.022	.000
	N	890	866	893	893
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

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