Data Management (MDM4U) · Statistical Analysis

Correlation and the Correlation Coefficient

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What does the "correlation coefficient" (r) measure?

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The strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables.

And one from the hard end

A national data set shows r=0.89 between a city's per-capita coffee shop density and its per-capita startup rate, even after statistically adjusting for population size and median income. A journalist concludes coffee "fuels innovation." Identify the strongest remaining threat to this causal claim.

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