pattern of association

collocation in English

meaningsofpatternandassociation

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pattern
adjective[before noun]
used in compounds to refer to the way in which a particular type of hair loss occurs, affecting mainly the top and front of ...
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association
noun
uk
/əˌsəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
us
/əˌsoʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
a group of people who work together in a single organization for a ...
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(Definition ofpatternandassociationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpattern of association

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Of course, thispatternofassociationis hardly very surprising.
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But thepatternofassociationof physique and social class appears to be changing.
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Although evidence suggests that these variables are interrelated, thepatternofassociationis complex.
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However, first and recurrent episodes showed a discontinuouspatternofassociation.
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This significant but nevertheless limitedpatternofassociationhas particular importance for this analysis.
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Inspection of the graphical plots of measures of frequency and distress suggested a linear, dose-responsepatternofassociation.
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Only the slightly reduced figures for those with four destinations in these two quintiles disrupt an otherwise very uniformpatternofassociation.
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If these biases could be identified and corrected, agreement should be high due to the strongpatternofassociationin off-diagonal counts.
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Given this caveat, thepatternofassociationbetween some tasks bears further investigation to refine the underlying constructs that the tasks may be assessing.
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The essence of our example involves recognizing the influence that changing the scale of the analysis has on the interpretation of thepatternofassociation, irrespective of methodology.
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Further, these results suggest an interestingpatternofassociationbetween gender, history of maltreatment, attachment style, and current conflict in close relationships among a nonclinical, high school sample of youths.
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As the duct is such an important landmark in any attempt at surgical correction, we reviewed our relevant morphological material to see if there was any significantpatternofassociation.
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Here, the question was does the samepatternofassociationbetween gaze accuracy and mentalizing descriptions of animations hold in this older age group as in the younger group?
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