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D. SarkaAdvanced Analytics with Transact-SQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7173-5_2

2. Associations Between Pairs of Variables

Dejan Sarka1  
(1)
Ljubjana, Slovenia
 
After successfully analyzing distributions of single variables, let’s move on to finding associations between pairs of variables. There are three possibilities.

  • Both variables are continuous.

  • Both variables are discrete.

  • One variable is discrete, and the other one is continuous.

If two variables are associated, a change of the values in one variable means that the values of the other variable in the pair change at least partially synchronously and not completely randomly. You want to measure the ...

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