| NOUN | cognition | correlational analysis | the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables |
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| Meaning | The use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables. | |
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| 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 |
| Parts | correlation, correlational statistics | 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 |
| Narrower | factor analysis | Any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors |
| Broader | multivariate analysis | A generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable |
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