PARTIAL CORRELATION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("partial 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partial correlation"):

first-order correlation (a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant))

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