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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by 23iofj on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:54AM (#26090827)
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as they say. Serbia and Honduras are anomalies. Within the entire data set there's a significant positive correlation between "Guns per 100 inhabitants" and Homicide rate.
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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by johnisgood on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:50PM (#26092425)
Are they really anomalies?

  | Country  | Homicide | Guns per 100 inhabitants |
  | US       |     4.46 |                    120.5 |
  | Serbia   |     0.72 |                    37.82 |
  | Honduras |    28.65 |                9.9-11.24 |
  |          |          |                          |
  | Cyprus   |     0.50 |                     36.4 |
  | Canada   |     0.72 |                    34.70 |
  | Finland  |     0.20 |                     32.4 |
  | ...      |          |                          |
  |          |          |                          |
  | Jamaica  |    38.20 |                      5.8 |
  | Eswatini |    37.16 |                      8.1 |
  | Brazil   |    23.93 |                      8.6 |
  | ...      |          |                          |
Are they anomalies, too, or what do you mean by anomaly? I do not want to edit the table anymore, but someone also mentioned Switzerland, indeed, extremely low rate of firearm-related homicide (0.13) with high rate of gun ownership (27.6-41.2). There are many more.
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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by 23iofj on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:49PM (#26095902)
Why cherry-pick? Just running the regression analysis on the entire dataset.
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