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correlation

[kawr-uh-lay-shuhn, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈleɪ ʃən, ˌkɒr- /


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And true to that name, my job at the Kennedy Center was to investigate the correlation between the arts economy and the economy of civic aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Each of these states represents a particular non-classical correlation shared by the three incoming photons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The correlation coefficient between the chart’s two data series is 97%, in fact — only slightly lower than the 100% reading that would mean there is a perfect correlation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

I think there’s more to the high oil-bond correlation than chance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The overall correlation was now down to .11, which for all intents and purposes means that the students’ evaluations had almost nothing at all to do with the experts’ evaluations.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

“It paints the picture of this later equity cycle environment, where correlations are lower, and we have these credit spreads widening out as well,” Wald told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

That allowed the team to determine whether the two Z bosons displayed the correlations expected from quantum entanglement.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

So if you just look at raw correlations between police and crime, you will find that when there are more police, there tends to be more crime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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