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Tag Archives: relationships
Catalog of Models
Whether you know it or not, you deal with models every day. Your weather forecast comes from a meteorological model, usually several. Mannequins are used to display how fashions may look on you. Blueprints are drawn models of objects or … Continue reading
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Tagged analytical, blogs, cats, data mining, deterministic, empirical, models, numeric, probabilistic, relationships, statistical, statistics, stats with cats, stochastic, theoretical
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Ten Ways Statistical Models Can Break Your Heart
Models are beautiful. The ways their features are combined sets them apart from each other. Each has its own personality, sometimes pleasant, sometimes not, and often not what you would expect. Here are ten ways your love affair with statistical … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, correlation, model, models, regression, relationships, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, variables
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How to Tell if Correlation Implies Causation
You’ve probably heard the admonition: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation. Everyone agrees that correlation is not the same as causation. However, those two words — correlation and causation — have generated quite a bit of discussion. Why Causality Matters No … Continue reading
Why You Don’t Always Get the Correlation You Expect
If you’ve ever taken a statistics class on correlation, you’ve probably come to expect that a large value for a correlation coefficient, either positive or negative, means that there is a noteworthy relationship between two phenomena. This is not always … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, causation, correlation, correlation coefficient, relationships, spurious correlations, statistics, stats with cats, variables, variance
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Tales of the Unprojected
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, cats, client, communications, objectives, politics, polls, project management, relationships, reviewer, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, surveys
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