After applying Spearman's correlation, there was a strong correlation between two variables, but in the data there is no relation between the two.
In the dataset, there is no relationship between the variables in terms of accident cases, transportation (Industry) and Burn (Type of accident) recorded a strong correlation using spearman of 0.92.
How do you interpret that? any idea would be very helpful.
Thanks
Hi Abderrahime,
There could be multiple reasons to this. One important factor to consider is that although there might be a correlation but it is not a causation (direct relationship). Spearman test doesn't differentiate between the two cases and thus an expert in the field (or reviewing literature) would help.
In these cases, it would be a spurious or illusory correlation.
However, to give a definitive answer to your case it is necessary to know the purpose of your analysis and the data matrix you used.
Might well be just a spurious correlation... see some illustrative examples here: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Statistics is the science of logic. If you found no logic from this correltion. Consider it as any mathmatical equation means nothing. Thanks alot.
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