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Correlation does not imply causation
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Corellation-causation
, Correlation does not mean causality
, Circular cause and consequence
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"Correlation does not imply causation" is a phrase used in statistics to emphasize that a correlation between two variables does not imply that one…
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Set-theoretic methods and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in particular are case-based methods. There are, however, only…
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Corpus ID: 14501394
There is a growing consensus among social scientists that research programs advance more effectively through the iterative or…
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PEARSON'S VERSUS SPEARMAN'S AND KENDALL'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS FOR CONTINUOUS DATA
Nian Shong Chok
2010
Corpus ID: 115602565
The association between two variables is often of interest in data analysis and methodological research. Pearson's, Spearman's…
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Towards an evaluation of accident investigation methods in terms of their alignment with accident causation models
Panagiota Katsakiori
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G. Sakellaropoulos
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E. Manatakis
2009
Corpus ID: 109728815
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N. Loneragan
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G. Skilleter
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S. Phinn
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Corpus ID: 56000430
There is a widely held paradigm that mangroves are critical for sustaining production in coastal fisheries through their role as…
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Highly Cited
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Law and the Semantic Web: Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications
Law and the Semantic Web
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Corpus ID: 21418519
Context of the Book.- Law and the Semantic Web, an Introduction.- Introduction: Legal Informatics and the Conceptions of the Law…
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Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization
E. Papaioannou
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Gregorios Siourounis
2004
Corpus ID: 32759836
We identify permanent democratic transitions during the Third Wave of Democratization and the nineties, when many former…
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Variable Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters
C. Clement
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A. Muzzin
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Helen Sawyer Hogg
2001
Corpus ID: 38359010
Based on a search of the literature up to 2001 May, the number of known variable stars in Galactic globular clusters is…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Correlation, Causation, Motivation, and Second Language Acquisition
R. C. Gardner
2000
Corpus ID: 14102443
It is well known to anyone who has taken even an introductory course in statistics that "correlation does not mean causation…
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Review
1995
Review
1995
Learning Bayesian Networks: Search Methods and Experimental Results
M. Chickering
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D. Geiger
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D. Heckerman
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Corpus ID: 1011569
We discuss Bayesian approaches for learning Bayesian networks from data. First, we review a metric for computing the relative…
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