Partial correlation-the idea and significance

Is the correlation between two variables reliable?

Xichu Zhang
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 14, 2021

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Generally, multiple linear regression is about quantifying the linear relationship between one dependent variable and several independents variables. By means of this model, we can discover how one variable is influenced by other variables, for example, how income is influenced by education, region…

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