Correlation coefficient

Correlation coefficient

A statistical measure of the relatedness of two variables; it can range from –1 (perfectly related inversely to each other) to +1 (perfectly related in the same direction to each other). When the variables are unrelated to each other, the correlation coefficient has a value of zero.

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