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An alternative to Pearson R^2

7.08.2007 admin

There is a nice online example of four datasets that show exactly the same variable mean AND Pearson R^2 although they look quite different!

I show here an alternative R solution for the correlation ratio eta that may help if you are dealing with such data.

anscombe.R
|wj_anscombe.R|

 

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