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What is a correlational study? There are many correlational study definitions but I am going to tell you a simple one. The correlational study is the study of the relationship between two variables.

In the first case, there is a strong upward-sloping relationship between X and Y; in the second case, no apparent relationship; in the third case, a strong downward-sloping relationship. Note the ...

Correlation functions were added to the available math functions in oscilloscopes to support two optional disk drive measurements, ACSN (auto-correlation signal to noise ratio) and NLST (non-linear ...

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This example defines modules to compute correlation coefficients between numeric variables and standardized values for a set of data. /* Module to compute correlations */ start corr; n=nrow(x); /* ...