correlation (noun)
51first-order correlation — noun a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant) • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑partial correlation …
52spurious correlation — noun a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their… …
53perfect correlation — noun : correlation for which the Pearsonian coefficient or its equivalent for multiple correlation is 1 …
54multiple correlation — noun a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables • Syn: ↑multiple regression • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑multivariate analysis • Hyponyms: ↑ …
55rank correlation — noun Date: 1907 a measure of correlation depending on rank …
56rank correlation — noun Statistics an assessment of the degree of correlation between two ways of ranking the members of a set …
57fourfold point correlation — noun an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male female) • Syn: ↑phi coefficient, ↑phi correlation • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑nonparametric s …
58Kendall partial rank correlation — noun a nonparametric measure of partial correlation • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑Kendall test …
59Kendall rank correlation — noun a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings • Syn: ↑tau coefficient of correlation, ↑Kendall s tau • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑Kendall test …
60phi correlation — noun an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male female) • Syn: ↑phi coefficient, ↑fourfold point correlation • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑ …