Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun biserial_correlation_coefficient

1 sense of biserial correlation coefficient

Sense 1
biserial correlation coefficient, biserial correlation -- (a correlation coefficient in which one variable is many-valued and the other is dichotomous)
       => correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation, correlation -- (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); "what is the correlation between those two variables?")