Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is ...

In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take aim at the oldest principle in electronics: Ohm's law.

Correlation coefficients are used to measure the strength of the linear relationship between two variables. A correlation coefficient greater than zero indicates a positive relationship, while a ...

You may have already heard this surprising statistic that might seem puzzling to the uninitiated: every summer, ice cream consumption and drowning rates rise in tandem, as if eating an ice cream ...

The assessment of multivariate association between two complex random vectors is considered. A number of correlation coefficients based on three popular correlation analysis techniques, namely ...

Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (r) Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) is a numerical measure of how closely data points in the scatterplot tend to cluster around a straight line. r indicates the ...

Correlation coefficient measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables. It ranges from -1 to 1, where 1 indicates a perfect positive relationship and -1 ...

For example, we might see a correlation between the number of social shares and rankings. But this doesn’t necessarily mean social shares directly influence rankings; it could be that great ...

Pearson correlation is also scale-dependent, meaning that the measurement units of the variables can affect the correlation value. In non-linear data sets, where relationships might not be ...