IN THE mid-1990s, an algorithm trained on hospital admission data made a surprising prediction. It said that people who presented with pneumonia were more likely to survive if they also had asthma.

Fuzzy set correlation techniques provide a mathematical framework for quantifying relationships among elements characterised by uncertainty and imprecision. By extending classical correlation measures ...

I often teach in my statistics class that correlation should not be confused with causation. That is, observing that two variables move together does not necessarily mean that one variable caused the ...

Pair correlation theory examines the distribution of spacings between elements of numerical sequences when scaled to a natural local scale. In its most classical setting, one considers a sequence of ...

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