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- Title
Real versus spurious correlation.
- Authors
Delampady, Mohan
- Abstract
The article compares spurious correlation and real correlation to establish a relationship between two variables by presenting a graph which depicts a relation between a country and its per capita consumption of chocolate. Topics discussed include influence of factors such as human development index and per capita income on the correlation, use of scatter plot to determine real correlation and accomplishments of various scientists such as Thomas Bayes, Raj Chandra Bose, and Debabrata Basu.
- Subjects
STATISTICAL correlation; FALSE precision (Statistics); ECONOMIC consumption statistics; HUMAN Development Index; BAYES, Thomas, 1701-1761; BOSE, Raj Chandra; BASU, Debabrata
- Publication
Resonance: Journal of Science Education, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 12, p1058
- ISSN
0971-8044
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12045-013-0133-0