correlation
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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
Researchers throughout the United States widely regard the Nova system when studying the correlation between the prolonged consumption of ultraprocessed foods and resulting health implications because the U.S. doesn’t have a definition of its own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
Not only has private equity lagged the S&P 500 in recent years, its correlation with public markets is very high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The theory then turns an observed rough correlation in time into a postulated chain of cause and effect.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Treasury Indicator – takes in 17 variables on momentum, volatility, macro variables, credit performance and correlations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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
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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