Subject: Re: statistics project
From: Stuart Williams 

Sorry I'm not replying under the thread header but I seem to have 
trouble doing so, therefore this will appear as  a fresh topic, but it 
isn't....

In article , 
lilyinapond@gmail.com says...
> hello there,
>   i about to do a statistics project on regression and correlation. i'm
> trying to see if theirs a relationship between GDP/GNP and Trade(import
> and export).
> 
> I'd like some other variables for GDP/GNP. Any ideas?

I'm not sure what you mean. If you're trying to find a relationship 
between GDP and Exports (or GDP and Imports), why do you need any other 
variables? 

> 
> I also like some help on how to go abt doing the project.
> 
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the outline you give in your opening 
paragraph could hardly be easier - why did you choose it (or agree to 
it) if you had no idea of how to go about it?

Two suggestions: get stats on GDP from a printed source -- usually far 
easier to track down what you want than on the Internet, where sites 
like Penn World tables and the ONS website (www.statistics.gov.uk ISTR) 
are strangely longwinded if you're just looking for bog-standard data. 
If you can find library copies of the Economic Review, published by 
Philip Allen, the Data Supplement is excellent for quick reference 
material. 
Second: when you've got your data, plug it into a spreadsheet and (in 
Excel for example) use the Chart functions to create a regression line, 
which can be suitably decorated with correlation coefficients and 
regression equations.

HTH

Stuart Williams