correlation
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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
But worry not, even a viewer who doesn’t know who Blanchard is can surmise this correlation to the bigger picture thanks to Schoenbrun quite literally spelling it out for us.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 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
“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
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
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It allows particles or systems to share correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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
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
It is a powerful—if limited—tool that uses statistical techniques to identify otherwise elusive correlations.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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