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
Each of these states represents a particular non-classical correlation shared by the three incoming photons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
This points to yet another reason why the richest Americans should stick to index funds: There is an extremely high correlation between the S&P 500’s annual returns and the yearly increases in their combined wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Obsessive parents might find this lack of correlation bothersome—what was the point of all those Mommy and Me classes?—but that is what the data tell us.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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That allowed the team to determine whether the two Z bosons displayed the correlations expected from quantum entanglement.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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
So “once you have really low correlations, some people might start looking for a top signal,” he said — although for now, “I think that’s a little premature,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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