Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation: Crash Course Statistics #8
Today we're going to talk about data relationships and what we can learn from them. We'll focus on correlation, which is a measure of how two variables move together, and we'll also introduce...
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Hi., I’m Adriene Hill and Welcome back to Crash Course Statistics. Today we’re talking about relationships. No, not why you and your bestie are platonic soulmates, or why your cat just doesn’t seem to like you, we’re talking about data relationships like how you can use one variable to predict another. Like if you can predict whether people who write in all capital letters are more likely to default on loans. Whether people drive faster after they watch Fast & Furious movies. Or whether blink more often when they're lying. INTRO We’ll start with the simplest data relationship, one between two continuous variables, also called bivariate data. But first, we’re going to need to visualize our data using a scatter plot. The scatter plot has...
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Hi., I’m Adriene Hill and Welcome back to Crash Course Statistics. Today we’re talking about relationships. No, not why you and your bestie are platonic soulmates, or why your cat just doesn’t seem to like you, we’re talking about data relationships like how you can use one variable to predict another. Like if you can predict whether people who write in all capital letters are more likely to default on loans. Whether people drive faster after they watch Fast & Furious movies. Or whether blink more often when they're lying. INTRO We’ll start with the simplest data relationship, one between two continuous variables, also called bivariate data. But first, we’re going to need to visualize our data using a scatter plot. The scatter plot has...
