Chapter 11: Adding Statistics Insights: Associations
As you saw in the previous chapter, enriching your data can be done through the application of complex algorithms. In addition to distances and linear programming, statistics can often be the ultimate weapon for data analysis. We will explain the basic concepts of some statistical procedures that aim to extract relevant insights about the associations between variables from your data.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
- Exploring associations between variables
- Correlation between numeric variables
- Correlation between categorical and numeric variables