Andrew Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Who was the first to say "Correlation does not imply causation" in so many
Kendall and Stuart says "...Yule (1926) frightened statisticians by adducing
cases of very high correlations which were obviously not causal...", in
time-series data, as it happens. They don't give a source for the actual
phrase, but quote a section from GBS's The Doctors Dilemma 1906 with the same
sense.
Yule GU (1926) Why do we sometimes get nonsense-correlations between
time-series? J R Statist Soc 89, 1.
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