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Lefty

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Was thinking about it, and here's a quick example to help you (all of you, really) understand why correlation does not necessarily indicate causation:

Many government buildings are closed on days beginning with the letter "S". If you were to graph the number of government buildings closed as a function of days beginning with the letter "S", you would find a very definite correlation (the correlation coefficient would be close to 1).

Now, is the closing of government buildings caused by certain days beginning with the letter "S"? No, the buildings are closed because it's the weekend, not because of the way the days of the week are spelled.

See? Correlation does not mean causation. It can imply causation, but you need to look deeper at the problem (usually by way of a regression analysis, which I was at one point able to perform, but not any longer).
 

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Look at Lefty causin' a ruckus.
 

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Was thinking about it, and here's a quick example to help you (all of you, really) understand why correlation does not necessarily indicate causation:

Many government buildings are closed on days beginning with the letter "S". If you were to graph the number of government buildings closed as a function of days beginning with the letter "S", you would find a very definite correlation (the correlation coefficient would be close to 1).

Now, is the closing of government buildings caused by certain days beginning with the letter "S"? No, the buildings are closed because it's the weekend, not because of the way the days of the week are spelled.

See? Correlation does not mean causation. It can imply causation, but you need to look deeper at the problem (usually by way of a regression analysis, which I was at one point able to perform, but not any longer).

I looooove regression analysis.

To be fair, I was a stat major in college, graduated a year ago, and I cant reember how exactly to do any of that shit either haha.
 
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Lefty

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I looooove regression analysis.

To be fair, I was a stat major in college, graduated a year ago, and I cant reember how exactly to do any of that shit either haha.

Yeah, I took AP Stats in high school (supposedly a college-level stats course at the time) and got as far as Calc 3 in college when I was a physics major, and after that I couldn't wrap my brain around the stuff we were asked to do. I mean, I still know a good amount about the bare-bones stats stuff, but as for interpreting data and assigning confidence levels, looking at T-scores, and the other advanced stuff....that's not happening, at least not with me.
 

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Go outside and play some actual baseball you pansy.
 

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the Sox have been playing well as of late, but they really need to start makin some trades.
 

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Yeah, I took AP Stats in high school (supposedly a college-level stats course at the time) and got as far as Calc 3 in college when I was a physics major, and after that I couldn't wrap my brain around the stuff we were asked to do. I mean, I still know a good amount about the bare-bones stats stuff, but as for interpreting data and assigning confidence levels, looking at T-scores, and the other advanced stuff....that's not happening, at least not with me.

I just got a job as a data analyst after being unemployed for a year after college, so i hope to be getting back into that stuff. If so, ill work on applying some of it to baseball for the forum.
 

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I live close to both of u..................
 

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Nice man, not to be a stalker but whereabouts in Westmont are you?
 

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