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autocorrelation
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autocorrelation [ˌɔːtəʊˌkɒrɪˈleɪʃən]
n Statistics
(Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent Also called serial correlation
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