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Allen Downey: professor emeritus at Olin College, data scientist at PyMC Labs, author of Think Python, Think Bayes, Think Stats and Probably Overthinking It.

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How Correlated Are You?

This post is an offshoot from Chapter 1 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for pre-order now! Suppose you measure the arm and leg lengths of 4082 people. You would expect those measurements to be correlated, and you would be right. In the ANSUR-II dataset, among male members of the armed forces, this…