ALL meanings of correlation coefficient
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C c - noun correlation coefficient a statistic measuring the degree of correlation between two variables as by dividing their covariance by the square root of the product of their variances. The closer the correlation coefficient is to 1 or –1 the greater the correlation; if it is random, the coefficient is zero 3
- noun correlation coefficient any of several measures of concomitant variation in two or more variables 3
- noun correlation coefficient one of a number of measures of correlation, usually assuming values from +1 to −1. 1
- noun correlation coefficient (statistics) Any of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables. 0