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Definition of Correlational analysis
1. Noun. The use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables.
Generic synonyms: Multivariate Analysis
Specialized synonyms: Factor Analysis
Terms within: Correlation, Correlational Statistics
Lexicographical Neighbors of Correlational Analysis
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 ..."