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covariation

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Noun1.covariation - (statistics) correlated variation
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
variation - the process of varying or being varied


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The research team, led by John Tavis and Rajeev Aurora, used a method known as covariation analysis to analyze variation in the genome-wide amino-acid sequence of viruses isolated from HCV-infected patients before they underwent treatment.
A finer tuned approach is to examine order relations over time using structural equation modeling, in which the amount of covariation across shorter and longer time spans can be partialed out.
Like exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the purpose of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is to identify latent factors that account for the variation and covariation among a set of indicators.
 
 
 
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