13 Great Articles and Tutorials about Correlation

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13 Great Articles and Tutorials about Correlation

Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations - and how to find the real ones
How to find out if it's correlation or causation
Correlation does not imply causation
Correlation and R-Squared for Big Data
Spurious correlations: 15 examples
How to Lie with Visualizations - Statistics, Causation vs Correlation
Associations and Correlations: The Essential Elements - Book
Examining correlation
The best kept secret about linear and logistic regression
Excluding variables from a logistic regression model - based on correlation
Another book about correlation vs. causation
High crime rates explained by gasoline lead. Really?
Comparing Copulas and Rank Order Correlation

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Comment by Robert W Stoddard on September 6, 2018 at 3:23pm: Vincent,

I am a very big fan of the following recently published book on causality by Dr. Judea Pearl.

I really think this is the next frontier of research-to-practice.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect/dp/046509760X/...

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Bob Stoddard

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