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Definition of Indirect correlation
1. Noun. A correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1.
Category relationships: Statistics
Generic synonyms: Correlation, Correlational Statistics
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indirect Correlation
Literary usage of Indirect correlation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stratigraphy of the Western American Trias by James Perrin Smith (1907)
"indirect correlation also may be of two kinds; the first of these is where no
... The second sort of indirect correlation is where no fossils are common to ..."
2. Mind in Evolution by Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1901)
"There is thus an indirect correlation between the constituent process and the
end subserved, but this falls short of a direct purposive correlation, ..."
3. Vital Statistics: An Introduction to the Science of Demography by George Chandler Whipple (1919)
"It is, therefore, necessary to devise some way of studying this problem by indirect
correlation, or secondary correlation. Causal relations. ..."
4. The Psychology of Drawing: With Special Reference to Laboratory Teaching by Fred Carleton Ayer (1916)
"It may come from an indirect correlation; perhaps those good in history, like
those good in drawing, are those who know best how to construct mentally the ..."
5. Exploring the Borderlands: Documents Of The Committee On Common Problems Of by Joe Cain (2004)
"The significance to a botanist of Epling s conclusion is that it was arrived at
partly through indirect correlation with the geological and climatic history ..."
6. Place Constants for Aster Prenanihoides by George Harrison Shull (1904)
"... a drect causal relation to another, and “mediate” or “indirect” correlation
in cases of correlated variation in which no such direct dependence exists. ..."
7. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1902)
"... as the amount of metabolic activity varies with the area of the body surface,
there is an indirect correlation between the metabolic activity and the ..."
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