correlation

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noun

1. a reciprocal relation between two or more things (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
correlativity
• Derivationally related forms:
correlative (for: correlativity), correlational, correlate
• Hypernyms:
reciprocality, reciprocity
2. 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) (Freq. 2)
- what is the correlation between those two variables?
• Syn:
correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation
• Derivationally related forms:
correlational, correlate
• Topics:
statistics
• Hypernyms:
parametric statistic
• Hyponyms:
product-moment correlation coefficient, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, multiple correlation coefficient, biserial correlation coefficient, biserial correlation,
split-half correlation, chance-half correlation, tetrachoric correlation coefficient, tetrachoric correlation
3. 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
• Syn:
correlational statistics
• Derivationally related forms:
correlational, correlate
• Hypernyms:
statistics
• Hyponyms:
curvilinear correlation, nonlinear correlation, skew correlation, partial correlation, positive correlation,
direct correlation, negative correlation, indirect correlation, spurious correlation
• Part Holonyms:
correlational analysis

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  correlational statistics, correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation, correlativity