correlation
A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
Other meanings
One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
Related words
- anticorrelation
- bicorrelation
- biocorrelation
- correlational
- correlationism
- correlationist
- correlogram
- correntropy
- corrgram
- countercorrelation
- crosscorrelation
- decorrelation
Word history
From Middle French "corrélation".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “correlation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.