September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 16m
English
Example
Military intelligence analyst Tyler Vigen demonstrates various kinds of spurious, non-existing correlations.3 On his site, you can find examples of bizarre, non-existent correlations, such as between the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine (r = 0.99), and between the marriage rate in Kentucky and the number of people who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat (r = 0.95). Similar strong but spurious correlations are found when large sets of organizational data are exhaustively analysed, such as the nonsensical relationship between sales representatives’ shoe size and number of sales, or the relationship ...
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