correlation
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"There is no correlation between them at all," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The correlation between stock prices and oil was negative — meaning, when one goes up, the other goes down — at -0.37 on a -1 to +1 scale.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
And true to that name, my job at the Kennedy Center was to investigate the correlation between the arts economy and the economy of civic aspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
In part, that is because self-reported sleep measures often show poor correlation with objective assessments, making it difficult to capture real-world sleep patterns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
But a skilled practitioner can use it to tell how meaningful a correlation is—and maybe even tell whether that correlation does indicate a causal relationship.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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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
That result is especially important because such correlations cannot be explained by classical physics and instead provide evidence that genuine quantum entanglement was produced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
One gauge is pointing to low stock-market correlations, with the Cboe 1-Month Implied Correlation Index approaching levels last seen two years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026
But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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