Re: Correlation test (sort of)?

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From: Brian Schott
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 04:26

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engelson-sean@CS.YALE.EDU (Sean Philip Engelson) writes:

>  When X is high, Y is (usually) low.  ("high" and "low" can be interchanged)
>	(note the asymmetry, if X is low, we don't care about Y)

>I need a statistical testing method that gives me a measure of my confidence in
>such a statement.  If necessary, I can put in threshholds defining "high" and

This can be modeled using fuzzy set's operators.  Michael Smithson has
a book (sorry I don't have the citation, here) circa 1987 which sws 
how to do this sort of thing, I believe.  It is basically a fuzzy sets
extension to traditional simple linear regression.


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