Question

1. Does correlation imply causation?

2. Why are correlations important to statistics?

Answer 1

Ans:

1)No,correlation does not imply causation.

As,correlation is measured based on observational data,but for establishing causation,we need to conduct experiment,we need to modify treatments to monitor the change in the response variable.

2)

As correlation can measure the linear association between two variables,whether they are positively or negatively associated.We can also test whether the relationship between two variable is significant or not.