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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

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

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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