Levine, Joel H. - In: Sociological Methods & Research 34 (2005) 1, pp. 31-75
What is the correlation between two variables? Traditional answers offer summary assessments such as Pearson’s r and … regression coefficients. But new computing techniques make it possible to construct conceptually simple hypotheses that describe … the full joint distribution of two variables, making it possible to “mine†the correlation for information that was …