{"id":1379,"date":"2014-08-12T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:31:34","slug":"tutorial-spurious-correlations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/estatistica\/tutorial-spurious-correlations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1083\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datasciencecentral.com\/profiles\/blogs\/tutorial-how-to-detect-spurious-correlations-and-how-to-find-the-\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1083\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2013\/10\/dataScience-300x54.png\" alt=\"Uso de m\u00e9todos robustos para identiicar correla\u00e7\u00f5es esp\u00farias\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2013\/10\/dataScience-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2013\/10\/dataScience.png 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uso de m\u00e9todos robustos para identiicar correla\u00e7\u00f5es esp\u00farias<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h1>Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real ones<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a>Posted by <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datasciencecentral.com\/profile\/VincentGranville\">Vincent Granville<\/a><a> on May 22, 2014 at 3:30pm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datasciencecentral.com\/profiles\/blog\/list?user=3v6n5b6g08kgn\">View Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Specifically designed in the context of big data in our research lab, the new and simple\u00a0<em>strong correlation<\/em> synthetic  metric proposed in this article should be used, whenever you want to  check if there is a real association between two variables, especially  in large-scale automated data science or machine learning projects. Use  this new metric now, to avoid being accused of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datasciencecentral.com\/forum\/topics\/five-articles-worth-reading\" target=\"_blank\">reckless data science<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analyticbridge.com\/profiles\/blogs\/scientists-tried-on-manslaughter-charges-for-providing-incorrect\" target=\"_blank\">being sued for wrongful analytic practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real ones Posted by Vincent Granville on May 22, 2014 at 3:30pm View Blog Specifically designed in the context of big data in our research lab, the new and simple\u00a0strong correlation synthetic metric proposed in this article should be used, whenever you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,102,105],"tags":[147,121],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-mining","category-estatistica","category-materiais-ensino","tag-estat-descritiva","tag-inferencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}