Correlation vs Causation

Statistics Intermediate 4 min read Published
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Ice-cream sales and drowning cases rise and fall together. Should we ban ice cream? Of course not: summer drives both. This lesson is about measuring “moving together” and, just as important, not over-reading it.

The Pearson correlation coefficient (r) runs from −1 to +1:

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