correlation: Spurious Correlations
In jr-packages/jrAnalytics: Practicals and datasets for Jumping Rivers courses
Description
This data set contains the number of honey producing
bee colonies (Thousands of colonies (USDA)) in the US and the Divorce
rate in South Carolina (Divorces per 1000 people (US Census)). With a
correlation of 0.9, this is clearly a significant result.
Source
Spurious correlations (http://www.tylervigen.com/
view_correlation?id=75)
Examples
1
2
data(correlation)
cor(correlation$bees, correlation$divorce)
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Description
This data set contains the number of honey producing bee colonies (Thousands of colonies (USDA)) in the US and the Divorce rate in South Carolina (Divorces per 1000 people (US Census)). With a correlation of 0.9, this is clearly a significant result.
Source
Spurious correlations (http://www.tylervigen.com/ view_correlation?id=75)
Examples
1 2 | data(correlation)
cor(correlation$bees, correlation$divorce)
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