FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first-order correlation mean? 

• FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION (noun)
  The noun FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION has 1 sense:

1. a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)

  Familiarity information: FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("first-order correlation" is a kind of...):

partial correlation (a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed)

Domain category:

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)