Once more, superimposing time series creates silly theories

Stats Chat 2013-06-10

Summary:

After I wrote the post about superimposing two time series to generate fake correlations, there was a lively discussion in the comments about whether a scatter plot would have done better. Here is the promised follow-up post. The contentious issue...

Link:

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2013/06/once-more-superimposing-time-series-creates-silly-theories.html

Updated:

06/09/2013, 22:52

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Tags:

statistics business science economics data randomness current affairs time series variance line chart scatter plot superimposed

Authors:

junkcharts

Date tagged:

06/10/2013, 17:40

Date published:

06/10/2013, 08:26