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Spurious Correlations: The Comedy and Drama of Statistics
Feb. 23, 2024, 7:29 p.m. | Celia Banks, Ph.D.
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What not to do with statistics
By Celia Banks, PhD and Paul Boothroyd III
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Since Tyler Vigen coined the term ‘spurious correlations’ for “any random correlations dredged up from silly data” (Vigen, 2014) see: Tyler Vigen’s personal website, there have been many articles that pay tribute to the perils and pitfalls of this whimsical tendency to manipulate statistics to make correlation equal causation. See: HBR (2015), Medium (2016), FiveThirtyEight (2016). As data scientists, we are tasked with …
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