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CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("correlational analysis" is a kind of...):
multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)
Meronyms (parts of "correlational analysis"):
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)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correlational analysis"):
factor analysis (any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data)
