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14 - When Is a Correlation Not a Correlation?

from Part II - How to Use Statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2019

Paul Cairns
Affiliation:
University of York
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Correlations are important to see connections between different facets of people and their experiences with systems. However, consideration of correlation coefficients alone can be misleading and, in particular, this chapter discusses how outliers and clustering can distort an interpretation of correlation. It also raises a note of caution for the many other methods that implicitly use correlation.

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Print publication year: 2019

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