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correlation

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


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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

Though this correlation doesn’t amount to a guarantee, you should know that it is stronger statistically than many of the other indicators that get far more attention on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Yet there is often a weak correlation between degrees of explicit and implicit bias; many people who think they are not biased prove when tested to have relatively high levels of bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

But SpaceX’s stock actually has “almost no relationship” to Big Tech, according to DataTrek, which cited the 30-day trailing correlations of various stocks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

The team also found that the photons displayed correlations that violate Bell's inequality.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 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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