positive correlation

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meaningsofpositiveandcorrelation

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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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correlation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɔːr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
a connection or relationship between two or more facts, ...
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These ratios rise at higher educational levels, because of thepositivecorrelationbetween education and female labor force participation.
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Thispositivecorrelationsuggests that related quantities such as volatility and volume should display positive autocorrelation.
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However, this decline over time is offset by apositivecorrelationbetween irrigation status and hiring.
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When government consumption expenditures act as a complement, we observe apositivecorrelationbetween private and government consumption.
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Hence, we observe apositivecorrelationbetween taxes and consumption that does not convey the true structure of causality.
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Furthermore, there was apositivecorrelationbetween infestation intensity and extrapolated cortisol levels.
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Second, the inferredpositivecorrelationbetween evasion behaviour and survival suggests that both have a common cause.
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Thispositivecorrelationof the two data sources may result in an underestimate of the total number of deaths when applying the capturerecapture method.
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Also, the model fails to produce apositivecorrelationbetween government spending and the terms of trade.
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A significantpositivecorrelationbetween the length of fore femur and the number of scales was detected in all treatments (table 6).
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Finally, we expect apositivecorrelationbetween number of prescriptions and the likelihood that a person underuses medication.
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The latter may explain why the research finds 'nopositivecorrelationbetween tax levels and service quality', in the boroughs (p. 384).
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There was a significantlypositivecorrelationin the rainy season and not in the dry season.
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The limited available evidence suggests that, while there is apositivecorrelationbetween inflation and salaries, neither is well hedged by equities.
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Apositivecorrelationbetween other dactylogyrid pairs (table 4) was found, but at least one has a low abundance.
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We should point out that the polynomial time complexity is preserved whenever modes other thanpositivecorrelationare associated with non-recursive predicates (for disjunction).
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In our year 2000 and 2001 analysis, there was a strong and consistentpositivecorrelationbetween wealth and satisfaction with democracy.
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Thus, we would expect apositivecorrelationbetween the precision of systems using the definitions and definition length.
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They found a strongpositivecorrelationbetween occupations associated with complex intellectual work and intellectual flexibility.
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Apositivecorrelationbetween island size and species richness was found.
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