correlation coefficient

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meaningsofcorrelationandcoefficient

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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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coefficient
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
a value, in mathematics, that appears in front of and multiplies ...
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(Definition ofcorrelationandcoefficientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The squared multiplecorrelationcoefficientfor this model was 0-24.
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Targets with acorrelationcoefficient0.9 fitted our model less well, and were correspondingly classified as 'less good'.
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The more words the lists have in common, the higher thecorrelationcoefficientis and the more similar the two context sets are.
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We even found a lowercorrelationcoefficientthan those found in the case of other fuel types.
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The following considerations imply that thecorrelationcoefficientis more variable than the fluctuation intensity.
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Forty-four samples from among the three lines, mostly from non-fasted animals, were assayed twice, allowing the estimation of acorrelationcoefficientbetween duplicate measurements.
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The sampling variance of the geneticcorrelationcoefficient.
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Figure 3 shows how the two lines remain distinct, and that there are no improvements in the (already high) values of thecorrelationcoefficient.
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In the latter case, however, a minimum of four covariates was included regardless of thecorrelationcoefficient.
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However, thecorrelationcoefficientassesses only strength of correlation and not calibration.
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Thecorrelationcoefficientr is a measure of the deviation of the responses from this regression line.
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Thecorrelationcoefficientof 0.81 indicated that there was a strong relationship between genetic and geographic distances.
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X is equivalent to thecorrelationcoefficientbetween the clustering indices for the two sets of counts.
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These intercepts are related to annual rainfall with acorrelationcoefficientof 0.994 (data not shown).
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The randomization statistic was thecorrelationcoefficientbetween counts from 10,000 randomizations.
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A pairwisecorrelationcoefficienttest indicates that all the variables are correlated at a 5 per cent level of significance.
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The numbers between panels indicate thecorrelationcoefficientbetween the indicated, which show the expected high correlations between similarly tuned sites.
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The preferred individual rule is, then, defined as that rule which maximizes thecorrelationcoefficientphi for these individual predictions.
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Regression analysis is weighted by population size, therefore some regression coefficients are statistically significant where the associatedcorrelationcoefficientis not.
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