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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

That’s in part because there is a strong correlation between wealth and longevity in America.

From Salon Aug. 11, 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

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

Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs.

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

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

Scientists have traditionally believed that producing the strong correlations needed for photon entanglement requires coherent light.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 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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