coefficient of multiple correlation
coefficient of multiple correlation
[¦kō·ə′fish·ənt əv ‚məl·tə·pəl ‚kär·ə′lā·shən] (statistics)
A measure used as an index of the strength of a relationship between a variable y and a set of one or more variables xi ; computed by deriving the square root of the ratio of the explained variation to the total variation.
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