different between similarity vs correlation

English

Etymology

From French similarité.

Morphologically similar +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m??læ??ti/
• Rhymes: -æ??ti

Noun

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.

   • Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

3. (mathematics) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances

Synonyms

• resemblance

Antonyms

• difference

Related terms

Translations

See also

• likeness
• alikeness

English

Etymology

From Middle French corrélationMorphologically correlate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k????le???n/, /k????le???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k????le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: cor?re?la?tion

Noun

correlation (countable and uncountable, plural correlations)

1. A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.
2. (statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
3. (algebra) An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.

Derived terms

• autocorrelation
• correlation coefficient
• discorrelation
• Pearson correlation

Related terms

• correlate

Translations

Further reading

• correlation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia