correction for attenuation
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correction for attenuation
[kə′rek·shən fȯr ə‚ten·yə′wā·shən] (statistics)
A method used to adjust correlation coefficients upward because of errors of measurement when two measured variables are correlated; the errors always serve to lower the correlation coefficient as compared with what it would have been if the measurement of the two variables had been perfectly reliable.
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