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Relevancy vs Correlation - What's the difference?

relevancy | correlation |

As nouns the difference between relevancy and correlation

is that relevancy is sufficieny (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence while correlation is a reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.

relevancy

English

(wikipedia relevancy)

Noun

  • (legal, Scotland) Sufficieny (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
  • (uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Myster of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy .
  • (countable) A relevant thing.
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    • Usage notes

    * In contemporary usage (relevance) is about 20 times more common in the US (COCA) and about 50 times more common in the UK (BNC) than this term.

    Antonyms

    * irrelevancy

    Related terms

    * relevant * relevance

    External links

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    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