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sample correlation coefficient

sample correlation coefficient

(symbol: r) an index of the degree of association between two variables based on the data in a studied subset (sample) of cases from a larger group of interest. It is a variant of the product-moment correlation coefficient, and the same symbol is used for both statistics. See also population correlation coefficient.

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