Definition of Correlational analysis

1. Noun. The use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables.

Category relationships: Statistics
Generic synonyms: Multivariate Analysis
Specialized synonyms: Factor Analysis
Terms within: Correlation, Correlational Statistics

Lexicographical Neighbors of Correlational Analysis

correlatable
correlate
correlated
correlatedly
correlates
correlating
correlatingly
correlation
correlation coefficient
correlation coefficients
correlation does not imply causation
correlation energy
correlation matrix
correlation table
correlational
correlational analysis (current term)
correlational method
correlational statistics
correlations
correlative
correlative differentiation
correlatively
correlativeness
correlatives
correlativity
correlator
correlators
correligionist
correligionists
correlogram

Literary usage of Correlational analysis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Implementing Academic Standards: Papers Commissioned by the National ...edited by James B. Hunt edited by James B. Hunt (1999)
"(See Appendix IV, a page from a correlational analysis of a first grade mathematics book) Publishers routinely supply printed correlations for the adoption ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"An experimental analysis, instead of a theoretical or a correlational analysis, is necessary to determine if and how reinforcement of competing behaviors ..."

3. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"But with the evolution of sufficient data amenable to correlational analysis the regression equation expressing the relative contributory weights of ..."

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