Here for spreading far and wide is (another) graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism Created by ...

That’s a great headline. After all, the search engine’s algorithm placed it at the top of the list, and I clicked on it. Should pro-family politicians get concerned and divorce lawyers excited? Should ...

There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.” The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

This paper discusses the effects of temporal aggregation on causality and forecasting in multivariate GARCH processes. It is shown that spurious instantaneous causality in variance will only appear in ...

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Yesterday Americans were choosing a president and the S&P 500 was up 0.8%. As one trader put it, opens new tab, “any time you take an element of uncertainty off the table, volatility comes down and ...

Researchers from Nanjing University and Carnegie Mellon University have introduced an AI approach that improves how machines learn from past data—a process known as offline reinforcement learning.