README.md

In schuelkem/whysospurious: Why So Spurious?

whysospurious

A package for illustrating the golden rule that “correlation does not imply causation”.

Installation

You can install the latest version of whysospurious from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("schuelkem/whysospurious")

Example

The number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with films Nicolas Cage appeared in (r = 0.67).

library(whysospurious)
tylervigen_plot2()

Another Example

Per capita cheese consumption correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets (r = 0.95).

tylervigen_plot3()

Yet Another Example

People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat correlates with marriage rate in Kentucky (r = 0.95)

tylervigen_plot9()

schuelkem/whysospurious documentation built on Jan. 22, 2020, 12:55 a.m.