NOUN | cognition | partial correlation | a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed |
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Meaning | A correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed. | |
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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 |
Narrower | first-order correlation | A partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant) |
Broader | 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 |
Catalan | correlació parcial |
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