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Pertinent vs Correlation - What's the difference?

pertinent | correlation |

As an adjective pertinent

is important with regard to (a subject or matter); relevant.

As a noun correlation is

correlation.

pertinent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • important with regard to (a subject or matter); relevant
  • *
  • Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.

    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