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

1 sense of correlation coefficient

Sense 1
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?")
       => parametric statistic -- (any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution)