STATISTICS

Correlation Coefficient, and How to Misunderstand a Relationship

Interpreting correlation is far more difficult than most people think. Misinterpreting it, on the other hand, is not.

Marcin Kozak
Towards Data Science
8 min readJan 9, 2023

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Perfect correlation! Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash

Correlation… Who has not heard about correlation? We use this term so often and yet we don’t know too much about it…

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