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| | Learn how to compute a correlation coefficient (Pearson and Spearman) and perform a correlation test in R
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| | One of the misuses of statistical terminology that annoys me most is the use of the word "correlation" to describe any variable that increases as another variable increases. This monotonic trend seems worth looking for, but it plainly is not what most people discover when they use standard correlation coefficients. This is because the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, which is usually the only correlation coefficient students learn to calculate, is strongly biased towards linear trends: tho...
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| This post could also be subtitled "Residual deviance isn't the whole story." My favorite book on logistic regression is by Dr Joseph Hilbe, Logistic Regression Models, CRC Press, 2009, Chapman & Hill. It is a solidly frequentist text, but its discussion of models and rich examples make that besides the point. Except in one case....