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NEGATIVE CORRELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1
Synonyms:
indirect correlation; negative correlation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("negative correlation" is a kind of...):
correlation; correlational statistics (a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other)
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)