Meaning | The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related. |
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Synonym | product-moment correlation coefficient |
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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 |
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Broader | correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation, correlation | A statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary |
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Catalan | coeficient de correlació de pearson |
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