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Correlation vs Decorrelation - What's the difference?

correlation | decorrelation |

As nouns the difference between correlation and decorrelation

is that correlation is a reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects while decorrelation is the reduction or removal of correlation.

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

    decorrelation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The reduction or removal of correlation.
  • A process that reduces autocorrelation or cross-correlation (in electronics, cryptography, neurology etc.)