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correlation
/ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
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What does correlation mean?
noun
- A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
- One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
- An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
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In the next chapter I shall discuss the complex and little known laws of variation and of correlation of growth.
This correlation is shown, perhaps more neatly than anywhere else, in the life-history of the American colleges and universities of recent growth.
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Running away from home and itineracy show in a wonderfully strong correlation with pathological lying, both in previous studies and in our own material.
This, however, is to wander into speculation, and far from that correlation of psychic knowledge with religion, which has been the aim of these chapters.
This correlation on the part of passengers, officers and crew was simply obedience to duty, and it was innate rather than the product of reasoned judgment.