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CO-VARY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they co-vary ... he / she / it co-varies
Past simple: co-varied
-ing form: co-varying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vary in the same time period (of two random variables)
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "co-vary" is one way to...):
vary (be subject to change in accordance with a variable)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
covariance ((statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means)
covariation ((statistics) correlated variation)