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English noun: coefficient of correlation

1. coefficient of 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?.


Synonymscorrelation, 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









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