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correlation

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


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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

In part, that is because self-reported sleep measures often show poor correlation with objective assessments, making it difficult to capture real-world sleep patterns.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

He said the strategy offers relatively low correlation to both long-dated bonds and stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The theory then turns an observed rough correlation in time into a postulated chain of cause and effect.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

That result is especially important because such correlations cannot be explained by classical physics and instead provide evidence that genuine quantum entanglement was produced.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 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

Fancy mathematical terms and reams of statistical correlations and computer printouts do not in themselves produce understanding, social scientists’ claims notwithstanding.

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




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