Pearson's correlation coefficient
(also Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient)
noun Statistics
A statistic measuring the linear interdependence between two variables or two sets of data.We used Pearson's correlation coefficients to measure the association between particle diameter size and spirometry parameters....
- We used Pearson's correlation coefficients to measure the relationship between environmental data and antibody data.
- The correlation between clinical variables was evaluated using the Pearson's correlation coefficient.
Origin
Early 20th century: named after K. Pearson (see Pearson, Karl).