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IN NATURE for Mar. 17, Mr. E. V. Newnham, in an interesting letter on “Correlation Coefficients in Meteorology”, points out that if we wish to test if an observed value could reasonably have occurred in a sample from uncorrelated material, ρ should be put equal to zero in the formula
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FISHER, R. Correlation Coefficients in Meteorology. Nature 121, 712 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121712a0
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