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correlation

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


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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

Even more ominously, the low in implied correlation in 2024 occurred on July 3, the same day USD/JPY peaked.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

"We felt that airflow increase on the 4850 Level during that test. That's what made the correlation and triggered everything," Connot said.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

The correlation between equity returns and legislative activity is not limited to the U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

There is a small negative correlation between death rates per thousand people in various regions of the country and divorce rates per thousand marriages in the same regions.

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

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

But he cautioned that “fragility comes back if correlations start to get closer to the norm.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 5, 2026

Krishna at Barclays says that historically low correlations within the S&P 500 sectors suggest idiosyncratic earnings, while noting concentration changes stoked volatility.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

“It strains credulity,” Lee ruled, “to suggest that these correlations are mere coincidence and the product of individual human selections.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 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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