English Online Dictionary. What means correlation? What does correlation mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle French corrélation. Morphologically correlate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: cor‧re‧la‧tion
Noun
correlation (countable and uncountable, plural correlations)
- A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
- (statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
- (algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
Derived terms
Related terms
- correlate
Translations
Further reading
- correlation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia