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coefficient of correlation
:
NOUN
cognition
coefficient of correlation
,
correlation coefficient
,
correlation
a
statistic
representing
how closely two
variables
co-vary
English
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coefficient of correlation
: 1 sense
> noun 1, cognition
Meaning
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
).
Synonyms
correlation coefficient
,
correlation
Category
statistics
A branch of
applied mathematics
concerned
with the
collection
and
interpretation
of
quantitative
data
and the use of
probability theory
to estimate
population
parameters
Narrower
biserial correlation coefficient
,
biserial correlation
A
correlation coefficient
in which one
variable
is
many
-valued and the other is
dichotomous
multiple correlation coefficient
An estimate of the
combined
influence of two or more
variables
on the
observed
(
dependent) variable
product-moment correlation coefficient
,
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
The most
commonly
used
method
of
computing
a
correlation coefficient
between
variables
that are
linearly
related
split-half correlation
,
chance-half correlation
A
correlation coefficient
calculated
between
scores
on two
halves
of a test
tetrachoric correlation coefficient
,
tetrachoric correlation
A
correlation coefficient
computed
for two
normally
distributed
variables
that are
both
expressed as a
dichotomy
Broader
parametric statistic
Any
statistic
computed
by
procedures
that
assume
the
data
were drawn from a particular distribution
Spanish
coeficiente de correlación
,
correlación
Catalan
coeficient de correlació
,
correlació
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