partial correlation

1. 1.

   a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed

   Broadercorrelation

   Narrowerfirst-order correlation

   statistics

Questions about partial correlation

What does partial correlation mean?

partial correlation means "a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed".

Is partial correlation a common word?

partial 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.