Common pitfalls in statistical analysis: The use of correlation techniques

Correlation is a statistical technique which shows whether and how strongly two continuous variables are related. In this article, which is the eighth part in a series on ‘Common pitfalls in Statistical Analysis’, we look at the interpretation of the correlation coefficient and examine various situa...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Rakesh, Ranganathan, Priya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Statistics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5079093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843795
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-3485.192046
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spelling pubmed-50790932016-11-14 Common pitfalls in statistical analysis: The use of correlation techniques Aggarwal, Rakesh Ranganathan, Priya Perspect Clin Res Statistics Correlation is a statistical technique which shows whether and how strongly two continuous variables are related. In this article, which is the eighth part in a series on ‘Common pitfalls in Statistical Analysis’, we look at the interpretation of the correlation coefficient and examine various situations in which the use of technique of correlation may be inappropriate. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5079093/ /pubmed/27843795 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-3485.192046 Text en Copyright: © Perspectives in Clinical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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