On May 6, 2011, at 4:27 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > On May 6, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ben Haller wrote: >> > >> As for correlated coefficients: x, x^2, x^3 etc. would obviously be highly >> correlated, for values close to zero. > > Not just for x close to zero: > > > cor( (10:20)^2, (10:20)^3 ) > [1] 0.9961938 > > cor( (100:200)^2, (100:200)^3 ) > [1] 0.9966219
Wow, that's very interesting. Quite unexpected, for me. Food for thought. Thanks! Ben Haller McGill University http://biology.mcgill.ca/grad/ben/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
