Monday, March 31, 2014

Correlation, causation, and data sets …

… Four years after the original Nature paper was... - more than 95 theses. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



… a theory-free analysis of mere correlations is inevitably fragile. If you have no idea what is behind a correlation, you have no idea what might cause that correlation to break down. 

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