"pearson product-moment correlation coefficient"

Noun

referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

is a type of: coefficient of correlation, correlation, correlation coefficient - a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)

same as: product-moment correlation coefficient