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COVARIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) correlated variation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("covariation" is a kind of...):
variation (the process of varying or being varied)
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)
Derivation:
co-vary (vary in the same time period (of two random variables))
covariance ((statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means)