Sentences with phrase «opposite change in another variable»

Negative correlation is used in statistics to measure the amount that a change in one variable can affect an opposite change in another variable.

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But when the variables are differenced, the a and b are negative, since changes in one direction tend to be counteracted by changes later in the opposite direction (for example, if a short - term factor caused x to increase in time 1 and went away before time 2, then x would drop in time 2, all else equal).