Psychology GCSE
Correlational relationships
What Correlational relationships means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Correlational relationships
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A correlation between two variables shown on a scatter diagram, which only shows a relationship, not that one causes the other.
Topics that use Correlational relationships
- Data analysis (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Data distributions
- Descriptive statistics
- Estimating results
- Measures of central tendency
- Primary data
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Scatter diagrams
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