NONLINEAR CORRELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonlinear correlation mean? 

• NONLINEAR CORRELATION (noun)
  The noun NONLINEAR CORRELATION has 1 sense:

1. any correlation in which the rates of change of the variables is not constant

  Familiarity information: NONLINEAR CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONLINEAR CORRELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any correlation in which the rates of change of the variables is not constant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

curvilinear correlation; nonlinear correlation; skew correlation

Hypernyms ("nonlinear correlation" is a kind of...):

correlation; correlational statistics (a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other)

Domain category:

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)