An Introduction To Correlation

Do you want to quantify the degree to which two variables are related? Correlation analysis can help quantify the degree to which these variables are related and evaluate the correlation coefficient, which tells you how much one variable changes when the other one does.

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Timestamps
- 00:00
-1:03 - Statistical inference
-2:44 - Signal-to-noise ratio
-3:30 - Signal-to-noise ratio and Correlation
-4:14 - Correlation
-6:15 - Correlation: Two more things
-7:22 - Correlation: Let’s do it
-7:52 - Correlation with Prism

About the video
Correlation is a bivariate analysis that measures the strength of association between two variables and the direction of the relationship.

Join Dr. Anne Segonds-Pichon, a Biostatistician, and one of the instructors on the Graphpad Statistics Bootcamp to learn how to perform a correlation analysis in Prism and correctly interpret the results.

In this video you will learn:
- When to use correlation
- The difference between correlation and R-squared
- How to interpret and test a correlation coefficient
- How correlation relates to regression

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