Correlation analysis
How are my variables related?
Overview
Before you start to create risk models, it
is a good idea to visualize how the variables are related to one another. Risk models often involve
correlated random variables, and exploring correlation between variables is an important part of
exploratory data analysis. Learn how to measure the degree of linear dependency between two random
variables using Python and the SciPy library. The lecture slides include a number of warnings
related to dependency, causality and correlation in risk analysis.
This submodule is a part of the risk analysis module.
Course material
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Modelling correlations with Python |
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Python notebook on correlation |
In these course materials, applications are presented using the NumPy and SciPy libraries for the Python programming language.
Other resources
We recommend the following sources of further information on this topic:
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Analysis of the “pay for performance” (correlation between a CEO’s pay and their job performance, as measured by the stock market) principle at Freakonometrics
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Python notebook on a more sophisticated Bayesian approach to estimating correlation using PyMC
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Exploratory computing with Python, a set of Python notebooks on analyzing data using NumPy/SciPy