| coefficient of multiple correlation [¦kō·ǝ`fish·ǝnt ǝv ´mǝl·tǝ·pǝl ´kär·ǝ`lā·shǝn] STATISTICS A measure used as an index of the strength of a relationship between a variable y and a set of one or more variables xi; computed by deriving the square root of the ratio of the explained variation to the total variation. |