correlation
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A spokesperson added: "There is a direct correlation between hospital handover delays and our ability to get to patients in the community quickly."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
There is very little correlation between what any valuation metric reads at any point in time and what subsequent one-year market performance is.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
That’s in part because there is a strong correlation between wealth and longevity in America.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
It is true that the stock-bond correlation has increased in recent years, as you can see from the accompanying chart.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
It allows particles or systems to share correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
It provides a unified—and somewhat badass—identity for a confusing set of weather correlations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Mitchell wants you to make those correlations, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The researchers caution that the study found correlations and cannot establish cause and effect.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Studies reporting small nonzero correlations are often merely reporting chance fluctuations, and are about as meaningful as a coin being flipped fifty times and not coming up heads half the time.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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