English noun: correlation |
1. | correlation a reciprocal relation between two or more things |
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| Synonyms | correlativity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | reciprocality, reciprocity |
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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) |
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| Samples | What is the correlation between those two variables?.
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| Synonyms | coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
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| Broader (hypernym) | parametric statistic |
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| 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 |
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| Domain category | statistics |
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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 |
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| Synonyms | correlational statistics |
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| Broader (hypernym) | statistics |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | curvilinear correlation, direct correlation, indirect correlation, negative correlation, nonlinear correlation, partial correlation, positive correlation, skew correlation, spurious correlation |
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| Part meronym | correlational analysis |
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