CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF OVULATION INTERVAL, BODY WEIGHT AND AGE, HEIGHT OF SELECTED REPRODUCTIVE WOMEN

Abstract

It is the wish of most women to be reproductive, possibly bearing children of desired gender, and as well maintain good body weight. Fecundity depends highly on ovulation while body weight, to a high extent depends on height. It is the aim of this study to analyze the Canonical Correlation between Ovulation Interval, Body Weight, on one hand, and Age, Height, on the other, of selected reproductive women classified respectively as the  and the  variables. The women selected for the study were reproductive (those who are still within the childbearing age and/or experiencing ovulation). Questionnaires were distributed with which their specific information were obtained. The data were analyzed using the R software version Rx64.4.0.0. The canonical variates were obtained and the corresponding canonical correlations were determined. The significance of the canonical correlation were tested and observed to be significant at the 0.05 level of significance. The implication of which is that the first and second canonical variates are statistically correlated, with unit variance and maximum correlation.