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correlational

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cor·re·la·tion  (kôr-lshn, kr-)
n.
1. A causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship, especially a structural, functional, or qualitative correspondence between two comparable entities: a correlation between drug abuse and crime.
2. Statistics The simultaneous change in value of two numerically valued random variables: the positive correlation between cigarette smoking and the incidence of lung cancer; the negative correlation between age and normal vision.
3. An act of correlating or the condition of being correlated.

[Medieval Latin correlti, correltin- : Latin com-, com- + Latin relti, relation, report (from reltus; see relate).]

corre·lation·al adj.
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Adj.1.correlational - relating to or employing correlation

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