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E1SPSSIntermediateAbout 30 min to complete

Correlation

What r measures and what it does not.

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What this module covers

what r measures and what it does not; Pearson vs Spearman vs Kendall's tau and the rule for choosing; assumptions, especially linearity - always plot first; the scatterplot gallery showing r = 0 with an obvious relationship; the menu path; reading the correlation matrix; interpreting magnitude, and r-squared as shared variance; partial correlation and what controlling actually does; correlation is not causation, stated with a concrete confounding example; APA reporting.