spuriouscorrelations
Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations
Description
Provides datasets from Vigen (2015) <https://web.archive.org/web/20230607181247/https%3A/tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations> rescued from the Internet Wayback Machine. These should be preserved for statistics introductory courses as these make it very clear that correlation is not causation.
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| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | OK |
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| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | OK |
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| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
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