Correlation coefficients are indicators of the strength of the linear relationship between two different variables, x and y. A linear correlation coefficient that is greater than zero indicates a ...

Almost every day you can find in media commentary that XYZ is causing stocks to fall (or rise). Such definitive statements are common—but what’s almost always missing is statistical proof. And if you ...

Regression imputation is commonly used to compensate for item nonresponse when auxiliary data are available. It is common practice to compute survey estimators by treating imputed values as observed ...

Plotting order statistics versus some variant of the normal scores is a standard graphical technique for assessing the assumption of normality. To obtain an objective evaluation of the normal ...