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correlation coefficient
Nouncorrelation coefficient has 1 sense
correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation, correlation - a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation); "what is the correlation between those two variables?" --1is a kind ofparametric statistic --1has particulars: