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Storks Deliver Babies ( p = 0.008)
Author(s) -
Matthews Robert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.00013
Subject(s) - stork , correlation , interpretation (philosophy) , positive correlation , statistics , psychology , mathematics , biology , ecology , computer science , medicine , geometry , programming language
This article shows that a highly statistically significant correlation exists between stork populations and human birth rates across Europe.While storks may not deliver babies, unthinking interpretation of correlation and p‐values can certainly deliver unreliable conclusions.