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Yes - to be clear, the author knows this is the confounder. That's why it was silly of the author to claim that the paper would describe a correlation without a
by jmmcd 5y ago
Yes - to be clear, the author knows this is the confounder. That's why it was silly of the author to claim that the paper would describe a correlation without a trivial confounder.
- hedora 5y agoLand area isn't well-correlated with the other three columns in the table.
- jmmcd 5y agoYes it is! I calculated R = 0.58, 0.81, 0.92, respectively. These will be highly significant, comparable to the p-value in the headline. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QTEB7KF1PXBV_TjgBsuVTQ0OPldV9yiJ3_lYvTZEdeQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QTEB7KF1PXBV_TjgBsuV...