positive association
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpositiveandassociation
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positive
adjective
uk/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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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 ofpositiveandassociationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpositive association
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Several factors may generate thispositiveassociation.
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There was apositiveassociationbetween employment and health.
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A significantpositiveassociationwas found between ferritin and age.
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These confirm a generalpositiveassociationbetween income and freedom.
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It is difficult to explain why apositiveassociationwas detected only in this month.
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Some studies have emphasized apositiveassociationbetween formal education and adoption30,40.
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It is not surprising that some subjects did not show apositiveassociation.
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They found apositiveassociationbetween continuous measures of depressive symptoms and cortisol.
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However, the third comparison shows a weakly significantpositiveassociationbetween implosives and ejectives.
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Thepositiveassociationbetween manufacturing and performance is probably due to two factors.
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There was a significantpositiveassociationbetween the birth weights and the maternal assessments of size.
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The vicinity of cases indicated apositiveassociationbetween human and cattle infection.
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However, thepositiveassociationbetween self-worth and behavioral adjustment is less consistent for aggressive children.
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In the middle and top tertiles, however, there was apositiveassociation.
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For all liana types, there was apositiveassociationbetween fleshy-fruitedness and presence of lianas.
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Our data show a strongpositiveassociationbetween co-payments and cost-related medication underuse.
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Particularly, morphological judgement and revision scores showed a strongpositiveassociation.
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Apositiveassociationwas found between alcohol counselling by family members and less use of alcohol.
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We found nopositiveassociationbetween infection rates and the presence of ectoparasites (fleas or ticks).
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We found apositiveassociationbetween coordinated joint engagement and later language production, which is also consistent with past research.
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Furthermore, comparative analyses show apositiveassociationbetween strongyle prevalence and level of habitat overlap across taxa.
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In contrast, the strongpositiveassociationbetween church density and churchgoing persists once population density is controlled for.
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There is some indication of apositiveassociationbetween confinement intervals, even though the association may be slight.
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