correlational analysis
Noun
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The use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables (synset 106039360)
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 parametersis a type of: multivariate analysis - a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variablesubtypes: factor analysis - any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the datahas: correlation, correlational statistics - a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other
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