Meetup 5 Continuation: Correlation Trick

Click here for a video on the correlation trick
Author

George I. Hagstrom

Published

September 23, 2025

Click here to watch the last few slides of Meetup 5. We couldn’t quite finish all of the slides in this week’s meetup 5. I recorded a short video on the material we missed, which is a very useful window function called rank. The rank of your data points is invariant under monotone transformations and is the basis of the Spearman Correlation, which is a measure of correlation that holds even under nonlinear relationships.