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correlation

[kawr-uh-ley-shuhn, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈleɪ ʃən, ˌkɒr- /


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That’s in part because there is a strong correlation between wealth and longevity in America.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

“Whenever growth is this fast, there’s got to be some strong positive correlation between SG&A and revenue,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

It was Prof Sheryl van Nunen who discovered the link between MMA and ticks almost 20 years ago, after noticing a correlation in patients at her Sydney allergy clinic.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

For Ibrahim, this correlation signifies that the source of interest in copper is its long-term potential in the AI industry.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

There is a small correlation between a woman’s being single and her having gone to college.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

But Mitchell wants you to make those correlations, too.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Yet the chart also shows that the stock-bond correlation is strongly mean-reverting: High correlations have consistently been followed by low correlations, and vice versa.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

It is designed to identify correlations in where and when the photons appear, allowing it to reconstruct the original particle interaction.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Right now, the market has a low level of implied correlations as measured by the three-month implied correlation index, which is currently below 10.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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