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English noun: correlation

1. correlation a reciprocal relation between two or more things


Synonymscorrelativity


Broader (hypernym)reciprocality, reciprocity

2. correlation (cognition) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)


SamplesWhat is the correlation between those two variables?.


Synonymscoefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient


Broader (hypernym)parametric statistic


Narrower (hyponym)biserial correlation, biserial correlation coefficient, chance-half correlation, multiple correlation coefficient, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, product-moment correlation coefficient, split-half correlation, tetrachoric correlation, tetrachoric correlation coefficient


Domain categorystatistics

3. correlation (cognition) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other


Synonymscorrelational statistics


Broader (hypernym)statistics


Narrower (hyponym)curvilinear correlation, direct correlation, indirect correlation, negative correlation, nonlinear correlation, partial correlation, positive correlation, skew correlation, spurious correlation


Part meronymcorrelational analysis









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