Of course correlation does not prove causation but this correlation seemed way too high to be mere coincidence.
Again, we need look no further than the likes of Hamm, Sharapova, Venus, Serena, and Danica to see this correlation.
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If this correlation is not recognized we inadvertently create unhappiness and suffering in the world around us, while we are simultaneously focusing on alleviating suffering elsewhere.
Based on this correlation, the economists built a statistical model that provided estimates of GDP levels for regions and countries without reliable economic data based solely on the satellite images.
By using this correlation criterion, the Fund provides exposure to pure-play oil companies with significant oil reserves that are not as involved in other industries such as natural gas or downstream operations.
The equity market has been the beneficiary of the interdependence it has developed with the artificially overbought bond market and it will be this correlation which will cause the equity market to decline as the bond market declines.
One possible counter-argument is that this correlation may simply show that different economies are at different stages of the cycle: when an economy is growing strongly, employment rates for both the old and the young are likely to be high.
Given all of the factors that contribute to inflation in the short run, this correlation is truly remarkable, but there are near-term deviations in times like this when central banks are fighting deflation trends actively or due to economic swings, currency changes, spikes in oil prices, or other factors.
And yet this numerical correlation does not prove that governments can merely increase pay to eliminate corruption.
This negative correlation is a powerful force in predicting oil prices, Holmes feels.
Every country studied has shown this same strong correlation between leaded gasoline and violent crime rates.
Studies have shown this has no correlation to innovation impact on the organization.
This variability in correlation confirms the presence of unique risk.
Part of this analysis requires a correlation study to test if the asset class has unique risk.
This business has less correlation with the PC business and more closely follows the expansion of data center activity.
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Market pundits seize on this oil-stock correlation, some 82 percent between crude oil prices and equity markets since the bottom in 2008.
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This involves calculating the correlation between, say, the neutrino and sunspot numbers, and then shuffling up the neutrino numbers randomly and recalculating the correlation.
This revealed a direct correlation between the number of mutations or slight alterations to the DNA, of the child and the age of their father.
If we remove Venezuela as an extreme case, and we make a statistical correlation of all the other countries in Latin America, this preliminary data set shows a very low correlation between personal and economic freedom.
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But there are at least two reasons to believe that correlation, in this case, reflects causation.
All that can be said is that there appears to be a strong correlation between eating this kind of meat and having these health problems.
Most people who say this have no real knowledge of correlation or know to use it to select asset classes.
Some of the shift in the correlation came about earlier this autumn when sell-offs in equities led some investors to liquidate holdings in other markets to raise cash, Grady said.
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But that brief correlation has clearly disappeared this century.
This led physicists to think that the original correlation was significant when in fact it was not.
This is so because there is a high correlation between educational levels and income, and between income and tax revenues.
But according to the researchers, this is the first time that a direct correlation has been made between ozone levels and heart attacks.
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