correlation
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A spokesperson added: "There is a direct correlation between hospital handover delays and our ability to get to patients in the community quickly."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
But worry not, even a viewer who doesn’t know who Blanchard is can surmise this correlation to the bigger picture thanks to Schoenbrun quite literally spelling it out for us.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
It is true that the stock-bond correlation has increased in recent years, as you can see from the accompanying chart.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Measures of correlation within the S&P 500 fell to their lowest levels in years as individual stocks tallied big swings, often moving in different directions from the broader market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Most people would look at this correlation and infer an obvious cause-and-effect relationship.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
It provides a unified—and somewhat badass—identity for a confusing set of weather correlations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Mitchell wants you to make those correlations, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is designed to identify correlations in where and when the photons appear, allowing it to reconstruct the original particle interaction.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Right now, the market has a low level of implied correlations as measured by the three-month implied correlation index, which is currently below 10.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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