TAILIEUCHUNG - Ebook Better business decisions from data - Statistical analysis for professional success: Part 2

(BQ) Part 2 book "Better business decisions from data - Statistical analysis for professional success" has contents: Relationships with numerical data, relationships with descriptive data, multivariate data, forecasting from known distributions, control charts,.and other contents. | P A RT V Relationships It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms—the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. —William Plomer We now progress from considering a single variable to considering whether two quite different variables are related in some way. In the proper terminology, we are moving from univariate data to bivariate data and searching for relationships between two variables. We shall also consider relationships between more than two variables. CHAPTER 13 Cause and Effect Storks and Birth Rates We human beings seem to have an inbuilt desire to seek out relationships between different observed effects, and deduce a cause-and-effect ­ ssociation. a I suppose that survival depends to some extent on recognizing ­ elationships r and assuming that one effect causes another. As youngsters we learn of danger by relating climbing to the risk of falling. Crossing the road without looking is related to the possibility of being struck by a vehicle, and so on. However, we are inclined to imagine relationships where none exist, and, worse still, to imagine that these relationships imply cause and effect. The extreme situation is in the area of superstition: a remarkably high percentage of the population avoid the number thirteen or carry lucky charms. Astrology, which claims that events in our lives are affected by the positions of the planets, has a large following. Of course, relationships can be a first step in indicating the presence of cause and effect. Science and technology have advanced, and still advance, by studying relationships. Meteorologists establish relationships between the features of air movements and the resulting weather. Chemists establish relationships between the constituents of substances and their properties. In scientific investigations carried out under .

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