How to determine relationship between 2 or more variables

A better understanding of correlation is required to better interpret relationship between variables

Kuan Rong Chan, Ph.D.
Omics Diary
Published in
2 min readJan 20, 2024

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Correlation matrix to display correlation between variables

Scatterplots are great to display relationships between 2 variables. However, how can you show there is indeed a meaningful relationship between the 2 variables?

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Kuan Rong Chan, Ph.D.
Omics Diary

Kuan Rong Chan, PhD, Senior Principal Research Scientist in Duke-NUS Medical School. Virologist | Data Scientist | Loves mahjong | Website: kuanrongchan.com