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Pearson's correlation coefficient

(also Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient)
Definition of Pearson's correlation coefficient

noun

Statistics
  • a statistic measuring the linear interdependence between two variables or two sets of data.

Origin:

early 20th century: named after K. Pearson (see Pearson, Karl)

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