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Daniil
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9 years ago

Correlation coefficient

The quick measure calculates the Pearson correlation coefficient between two measures within the category.   NAME: Correlation coefficient   DESCRIPTION: Calculate the Pearson correlation...
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lbendlin
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2 years ago

Can't see a reason for that, but is likely a question for  jeffrey_wang 

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jeffrey_wang
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2 years ago

Linest is just a shortcut for LinestX with the <table> argument derived from the column references. The internal algorithm is the same.

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    dfreeman2
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    2 years ago

    Right, I was trying to determine why the Quick measure for Correlation Coefficient is giving an R value that when squared does not match Linest. Since the quick measure is forcing the summarization, it is only an estimated R value.