FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("first-order correlation" is a kind of...):

partial correlation (a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed)

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)

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