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English: An illustration of spurious correlation as defined by Karl Pearson in Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution—On a Form of Spurious Correlation Which May Arise When Indices Are Used in the Measurement of Organs, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1897, volume 60, pages 489-498, https://www.jstor.org/stable/115879)
Source code This media was created with R (programming language for statistical analysis)
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require(ggplot2)
set.seed(5)
n.obs <- 500
xyz.df <- data.frame(
x=rnorm(n.obs, mean=10, sd=1),
y=rnorm(n.obs, mean=10, sd=1),
z=rnorm(n.obs, mean=30, sd=3)
)
xyz.df <- transform(
xyz.df,
x.over.z= x/z,
y.over.z= y/z
)
ggplot(data=xyz.df, aes(y=x.over.z, x=y.over.z)) +
geom_point() +
labs(y="x/z", x="y/z") +
annotate(
"text", x= 0.2, y=0.6, hjust=0, vjust=1, parse=TRUE, size=10,
label=sprintf(" rho == %0.2f", with(xyz.df, cor(x.over.z,y.over.z)))
) +
coord_equal(xlim=c(0.18,0.62), ylim=c(0.18,0.62))
ggsave("spuriousCorrelationBW.svg", height=6, width=6)
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| Source | Own work |
| Author | David Lovell (Lov090) |
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| current | 02:26, 10 January 2014 | | 540 × 540 (146 KB) | wikimediacommons>Lov090 | User created page with UploadWizard |
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