correlation
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It was Prof Sheryl van Nunen who discovered the link between MMA and ticks almost 20 years ago, after noticing a correlation in patients at her Sydney allergy clinic.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Even more ominously, the low in implied correlation in 2024 occurred on July 3, the same day USD/JPY peaked.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We felt that airflow increase on the 4850 Level during that test. That's what made the correlation and triggered everything," Connot said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
This correlation has long been the subject of urban myths on Wall Street, and many have dismissed it out of hand.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
“While that is intriguing, correlation does not constitute evidence.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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
His comment about historically low correlations was misattributed to Stifel’s Thomas Carroll.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
“It strains credulity,” Lee ruled, “to suggest that these correlations are mere coincidence and the product of individual human selections.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
"These correlations with temperature begin to give a sense for how much melt or snowline retreat we can anticipate under future, warmer climates across the region," Wells said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 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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