Plunging oil prices and China's market meltdown have been cited as two big culprits behind market volatility this summer, but history
shows less correlation between these markets and U.S. stocks than many investors might expect.
Not exact matches
But, for what it's worth, several studies have
shown a
correlation between consuming
less tryptophan and living longer.
Identical twins
show a
correlation of about 0.88 on intelligence tests when they grow up together, and only slightly
less when they grow up apart.
The branch lengths of the high - variance exon tree
showed a strong positive
correlation with GC content and a negative
correlation with the average body mass of species, seen at a much
lesser magnitude in the low - variance exon tree (Fig. 6, A to D).
«We're
showing the biological underpinnings of these
correlations, and understand whether genetic variation may make some people more or
less susceptible to certain carcinogens in food, which may have future important implications for prevention and population health.»
In healthy aging, it's
less clear, although studies
showed that mitochondrial lipid perodixation as strong
correlation with MLSP (in mammals) but it's not necessarily 100 % causal but more correlative (studies said that mitochondrial membrane peroxidation contributes about 30 % in intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alone.
We first demonstrate
less variability of global Pearson
correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we
show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in
correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.
Studies
show a
correlation between higher levels of omega - 3s and
less instances of insomnia and other sleep interruptions.
A similar study also suggested a positive
correlation between teachers» ratings of attractiveness and expectations of children's skills [26]
showing that teachers judged children rated as more attractive as more social, confident, popular, academically strong, and more likely to become leaders than students who were rated as
less attractive.
Markowitz
showed that by combining risky assets that have
less than perfect
correlation, you can create a portfolio that has lower risk and a higher expected return than its individual components.
I'm sure the likes of Ackoff would be the first to agree that it is not required «to demonstrate the existence of a
correlation» for causality to exist or even to be
shown to exist, especially if you attempt very hard not to find such a
correlation solely by naively «eyeballing» a graph that plots
less than half the relevant data and then backing it up by the announcement «Stupid... in fact I'm not.»
None of the
correlations showed an r2 > 0.24 (highest in August), and most were much smaller (especially during the key spring period where the variance explained was
less than 5 %).
This data
shows that the tree rings have a
correlation with local temperatures that is much
less than the rings have with hemispheric temperatures (explaining only about half as much of the variation).
MWMT and MAP had relatively small effects on tree growth (
less than 40 % of the analyzed groups
showed significant
correlations), whereas the effect of MCMT on tree growth was mostly negative among the detected significant groups (Fig. 3B).
(These two
correlation coefficients
show a strong significant difference in a two - tailed test with a p - value of
less than 0.03.)
And there is
correlation between CO2 and temperature, you're just looking at too short a time span in a temperature data set that
shows less warming.
But in a chaotic system, when thousands of variables may matter, and there are all kinds of cross-dependencies between variables, definitively
showing direct
correlation, much
less causation, is very hard, possibly impossible.
Many studies
show the same
correlation: ever since the financial crisis, firms have been steadily raising their rates and yet actually collecting
less money.
The company released the results of a study that
showed a
correlation between auto insurance premiums and credit score, indicating that consumers with higher credit scores paid
less for their auto insurance each year.
Although the daily return and price data
show that there is a negative
correlation between Kobayashi's actions and the Bitcoin prices in the short run (daily), it would be best if Kobayashi took a
less transparent approach to selling the quantity of coins under his management to avoid frightening investors into another mob - mentality sell - off.
Secondly, the effectiveness of 12 step programmes for drug treatment has been questioned because
correlations between attendance and abstinence do not necessarily imply a causal connection between the two.1 This study
shows that patients randomly assigned to such programmes are
less likely to abstain from drug use than patients randomly assigned to a cognitive behavioural intervention.
They also found that frequency of time spent with fathers did not affect the closeness of the father - child relationship, although adolescents who did feel emotionally closer to their fathers tended to
show less depression (a chicken - egg
correlation.)
The present study has also
shown a
correlation between increasing age and
less frequent reliance upon emotion oriented coping styles among the homeless (Table 3).