partial correlation

Noun
  1. A correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed (synset 106041396)
    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: 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
    subtypes: first-order correlation - a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)

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