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Correlation vs Anticorrelation - What's the difference?

correlation | anticorrelation |

As nouns the difference between correlation and anticorrelation

is that correlation is a reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects while anticorrelation is negative correlation (a relationship in which one value increases as the other decreases).

correlation

English

(wikipedia correlation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects
  • (statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
  • An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

    • Derived terms

    * autocorrelation * correlation coefficient * Pearson correlation

    Related terms

    * correlate

    anticorrelation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (negative relationship)
  • Negative correlation (a relationship in which one value increases as the other decreases).