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BISERIAL CORRELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A correlation coefficient in which one variable is many-valued and the other is dichotomous
Synonyms:
biserial correlation; biserial correlation coefficient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("biserial correlation" is a kind of...):
coefficient of correlation; correlation; correlation coefficient (a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation))
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)
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