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correlate telephone area codes, incomes, and purchases

English translation: compare tendencies, if any, between telephone area codes, incomes and purchases

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English term or phrase:correlate telephone area codes, incomes, and purchases
Selected answer:compare tendencies, if any, between telephone area codes, incomes and purchases
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

02:07 Feb 22, 2009
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Mathematics & Statistics
English term or phrase: correlate telephone area codes, incomes, and purchases
Today, any twelve-year-old willing to put down his iPod for a moment can correlate telephone area codes, incomes, and purchases.

What's the relation between these things?
Shirley Fan
Local time: 02:54
compare tendencies, if any, between telephone area codes, incomes and purchases
Explanation:
For example, a certain area code might be very common in New York City whereas another area code may be common in a small town in Indiana. Usually when comparing incomes between these two area codes indicative, at least historically, of these two different places, income would be higher in the large city and purchases in expensive restaurants would also tend to be higher in a large city. These like tendencies are called a positive correlation. If there is no like tendency, there is no correlation. If there is a tendency to be the opposite, it is called a negative correlation.

Mike :)
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Michael Powers (PhD)
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Local time: 14:54
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4 +4compare tendencies, if any, between telephone area codes, incomes and purchases
Michael Powers (PhD)
5 +2just means to put in order
Gary D


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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
compare tendencies, if any, between telephone area codes, incomes and purchases


Explanation:
For example, a certain area code might be very common in New York City whereas another area code may be common in a small town in Indiana. Usually when comparing incomes between these two area codes indicative, at least historically, of these two different places, income would be higher in the large city and purchases in expensive restaurants would also tend to be higher in a large city. These like tendencies are called a positive correlation. If there is no like tendency, there is no correlation. If there is a tendency to be the opposite, it is called a negative correlation.

Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 14:54
Native speaker of: English
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Demi Ebrite
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Demi - Mike :)
agree  Jack Doughty
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Jack - Mike :)
agree  David Moore (X)
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, David - Mike :)
agree  Dian Kjærgaard: Just a little pedantic point. Correlation is based on a stastical analysis of the same point in time. To see a tendency, you need to analyze a series of correlations.
1 day 8 hrs
  -> Actually you are absolutely correct, Dian. I modified a biomedical statistical ANOVA model from UCLA for unequal subjects per group for my dissertation, so I should not have been so sloppy - I appreciate you're pointing that out to me. - Mike :)
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
just means to put in order


Explanation:
It means a 12 year old would have the ability to show a correlation between a persons area code, their income and what they purchase, If he put his Ipod down put his mind to it.

Virtually saying they have all the technology today, that a you only need a 12 year old to do this job, IF you can get their Ipod out of their hand.



Gary D
Local time: 04:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marie Scarano
1 hr
  -> Thank you Marie
neutral  David Moore (X): I think there's much more behind this, as Mike suggest. Even market research can be made to work for them by the criminally-inclined...
4 hrs
  -> Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
agree  Pham Huu Phuoc
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thanks Pham... I value your approval
neutral  Dian Kjærgaard: Very funny about whether or not the 12-year-old would *want* to do it. But a really good analysis would probably require some education or training, regardless of the analyst's age.
1 day 5 hrs
  -> It is just an analogy Thanks any how
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