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noun
Any of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: parametric statistic
Narrower terms: 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
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