negative correlation

1. 1.

   a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1

   Synonymsindirect correlation

   Broadercorrelation

   statistics

Questions about negative correlation

What does negative correlation mean?

negative correlation means "a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1".

What is another word for negative correlation?

Close synonyms include indirect correlation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is negative correlation a common word?

negative 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.