Correlation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship, especially a structural, functional, or qualitative correspondence between two comparable entities: a correlation between drug abuse and crime.
  • n. Statistics The simultaneous change in value of two numerically valued random variables: the positive correlation between cigarette smoking and the incidence of lung cancer; the negative correlation between age and normal vision.
  • n. An act of correlating or the condition of being correlated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects
  • n. One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions.
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  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Reciprocal relation; interdependence or interconnection.
  • n. The act of bringing into orderly connection or reciprocal relation.
  • n. In physiology, specifically, the interdependence of organs or functions; the reciprocal relations of organs.
  • n. In geometry, such a relation between two planes that to each intersection of lines in either there corresponds in the other a line of junction between points corresponding to the intersecting lines in the first plane; also, a relation between two spaces such that to every point in either there corresponds a plane in the other, three planes in either intersecting in a point corresponding to the plane of the three points in the other space to which the three intersecting planes correspond; more generally, a relation between figures, propositions, etc., derivable from one another in an n-dimensional space by interchanging points with (n—1) -dimensional flats.
  • n. In statistics, the relation of two or more variable quantities.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a reciprocal relation between two or more things
  • n. 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)
  • n. 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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    relation    analogy    reciprocation   
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