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correlation

/ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

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What does correlation mean?

noun

  1. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
  2. One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
  3. An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

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/ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

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In the next chapter I shall discuss the complex and little known laws of variation and of correlation of growth.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
This correlation is shown, perhaps more neatly than anywhere else, in the life-history of the American colleges and universities of recent growth.
Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassProject Gutenberg ebook #833
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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.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
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.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Vital MessageProject Gutenberg ebook #439
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.
Lawrence BeesleyThe Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its LessonsProject Gutenberg ebook #6675