spuriouscorrelations: Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations
Provides datasets from Vigen (2015) rescued from the Internet Wayback Machine. These should be preserved for statistics introductory courses as these make it very clear that correlation is not causation.
| Version: | 0.2 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| Published: | 2026-07-30 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.spuriouscorrelations |
| Author: | Tyler Vigen [cph],
Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda <m.vargas.sepulveda at gmail.com> |
| License: | CC0 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | spuriouscorrelations results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | spuriouscorrelations.html , spuriouscorrelations.pdf |
Downloads:
| Package source: | spuriouscorrelations_0.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: spuriouscorrelations_0.2.zip, r-release: spuriouscorrelations_0.1.zip, r-oldrel: spuriouscorrelations_0.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): spuriouscorrelations_0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): spuriouscorrelations_0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): spuriouscorrelations_0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): spuriouscorrelations_0.2.tgz |
| Old sources: | spuriouscorrelations archive |
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