1. a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1; [syn: negative correlation, indirect correlation]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
indirect correlation
n 1: a correlation in which large values of one variable are
associated with small values of the other; the correlation
coefficient is between 0 and -1 [syn: negative
correlation, indirect correlation]