coefficient of determination
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coefficient of determination
[¦kō·ə′fish·ənt əv di‚tər·mə′nā·shən] (statistics)
A statistic which indicates the strength of fit between two variables implied by a particular value of the sample correlation coefficient r. Designated by r 2.
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