# correlativity

## Definitions

• WordNet 3.6
• n correlativity a reciprocal relation between two or more things
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
• n correlativity The character or state of being correlative; correlativeness.
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## Usage

### In literature:

They are correlative and complementary expressions for the same reality.
"Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic" by Sidney L. Gulick
In the monads, the versatility, rapidity, and power of movement are always correlated with the number of these.
"Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885" by Various
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by H. G. Wells
In several ways the correlation of the musician with the non-musical world is now more intimate and conscious than ever before.
"Recent Developments in European Thought" by Various
In the mind of China, wealth is the correlative of strength.
"The Awakening of China" by W.A.P. Martin
I have a theory that any physical defect has its correlative mental and moral defect.
"Famous Modern Ghost Stories" by Various
However, the laboratory psychologists nowadays have gone far beyond such superficial claims for correlations of symptoms.
"Psychology and Industrial Efficiency" by Hugo Münsterberg
You don't give the correlative.
"Memories and Anecdotes" by Kate Sanborn
He is the correlative of Heaven, or rather Heaven itself.
"Myths and Legends of China" by E. T. C. Werner
These latter too have their properties which are also correlated to each other.
"The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1"
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### In poetry:

In child-way her heart's eye did see
The correlation's node:
"Yes," she said, "God takes care o' me,
An' I take care o' God."
"Reciprocity" by George MacDonald

### In news:

Age and undervotes correlated , paper finds.
UK Study Shows Correlation with Pseudoephedrine Sales and Meth Production.
The beer and voting booth correlation that might surprise you.
So it seems the fear of correlations was formalized—made into a turn of phrase, I mean—at around the time that correlations came into formal being.
Beware of spurious correlations , I know.
Debate rages over hip hop's correlation with crime.
In practice, correlations are almost always somewhere between +1.0 and -1.0.
There has been no greater correlation to the team's success this season than Robbie Keane's trademark goal celebration of a cartwheel and forward roll.
When we started using the Z-View Aberrometer, we saw that, in most cases, our refraction , autorefractor and wavefront readings all correlated.
Bush renomination of Stickler, Correll an insult to coal families, UMWA says.
Assets with high correlations tend to move in tandem, which make it harder for active managers to harvest the winners.
Differences don't necessarily correlate with skin color, but rather with geography and climate.
Bush renomination of Stickler , Correll an insult to coal families, UMWA says.
"As sunspot numbers increase, it seems to correlate to a warming of the global climate, and then as sunspot activity decreases there seems to be a general cooling," said Dr Mark Giampapa, the Deputy Director at the National Solar Observatory.
They videotaped the waves they surfed there also, so later they could correlate the video and the velocity data and check their speed at specific points on a wave.
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### In science:

We note that correlation of local statistics arises naturally from correlation of expression among genes. A simulation study based on a real microarray data set exhibits the extreme anti-conservative behavior of Class 1 tests in the presence of realistic levels of correlation in expression.
A statistical framework for testing functional categories in microarray data
Like both Pearson’s correlation coeﬃcients and Spearman’s rank correlation coeﬃcients, the quotient correlation coeﬃcients and the rank based quotient correlation coeﬃcients measure the level of agreement between two random variables.
Quotient correlation: A sample based alternative to Pearson's correlation
Another issue that needs careful treatment is the question of correlation among different measurements, e.g. due to using the same theory for calculating acceptances. A common practice is to set the correlation coeﬃcient to unity to indicate full correlation.
Bayesian testing of many hypotheses $\times$ many genes: A study of sleep apnea