HyperDic: positive_correlation

English > 1 sense of the expression positive correlation:
NOUNcognitionpositive correlation, direct correlationa correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small
English > positive correlation: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningA correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1.
Synonymdirect correlation
CategorystatisticsA branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
Broadercorrelation, correlational statisticsA 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

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