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alcohol correlation... [message #22660] Tue, 28 November 2000 00:00
Randall Skelton is currently offline  Randall Skelton
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Registered: October 2000
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I am sure someone else must have noticed this in the IDL 5.3 help file on
"Correlation Analysis." Here is a quote:

"Although a high degree of correlation (a value close to +1 or
-1) indicates a good mathematical fit to a linear model, its applied
interpretation may be completely nonsensical. For example, there may be a
high degree of correlation between the number of scientists using IDL to
study atmospheric phenomena and the consumption of alcohol in Russia, but
the two events are clearly unrelated."

While I am not Russian, I can claim that my alcohol consumption has
increased since I began using IDL to study atmospheric phenomena 3 months
ago... is there a possible correlation here after all?

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