first-order correlation

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   a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)

   Broaderpartial correlation

   statistics

Questions about first-order correlation

What does first-order correlation mean?

first-order correlation means "a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant)".

Is first-order correlation a common word?

first-order correlation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.