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partial autocorrelationnoun(statistics) Remaining correlation of two random variables in a stochastic process after intervening random variables have been accounted for.
correlationnoun(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
decouplingnounThe act or process by which something is decoupled.
conditional independenceIn probability theory, conditional independence describes situations wherein an observation is irrelevant or redundant when evaluating the certainty of a hypothesis.
distance correlationIn statistics and in probability theory, distance correlation or distance covariance is a measure of dependence between two paired random vectors of arbitrary, not necessarily equal, dimension.
conditional varianceIn probability theory and statistics, a conditional variance is the variance of a random variable given the value(s) of one or more other variables.
marginal distributionnounThe projection of a joint probability distribution onto one of its component random variables.
correlation coefficientnoun(statistics) Any of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables.
regressionnoun(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
polychoric correlationIn statistics, polychoric correlation is a technique for estimating the correlation between two hypothesised normally distributed continuous latent variables, from two observed ordinal variables.
pairwise independenceIn probability theory, a pairwise independent collection of random variables is a set of random variables any two of which are independent.
partial residual plotIn applied statistics, a partial residual plot is a graphical technique that attempts to show the relationship between a given independent variable and the response variable given that other independent variables are also in the model.
binary regressionIn statistics, specifically regression analysis, a binary regression estimates a relationship between one or more explanatory variables and a single output binary variable.
probability distributionnoun(statistics) A distribution of all possible values of a random variable together with an indication of their probabilities.
covariancenoun(statistics) A statistical measure defined as scriptstyle operatorname Cov(X,Y)= operatorname E((X-μ)(Y-ν)) given two real-valued random variables X and Y, with expected values scriptstyle E(X),=,μ and scriptstyle E(Y),=,ν.
moderationnounThe state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
partialExisting as a part or portion; incomplete.
correlation functionnoun(mathematics) function giving the statistical correlation between random variables at two different points in space or time
factor analysisnoun(uncountable, statistics) A statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).
linear regressionnoun(statistics) A linear equation for deriving a single predicted value from one or more known explanatory values.

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