Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient

1 sense of pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

Sense 1
product-moment correlation coefficient, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient -- (the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related)
       => 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?")