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correlation coefficient  

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  • A correlation coefficient is a numerical measure of some type of correlation, meaning a statistical relationship between two variables. The variables may be two columns of a given data set of observations, often called a sample, or two components of a multivariate random variable with a known distribution. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_coefficient)

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