APA Dictionary of Psychology
coefficient
- n.
- a quantity or value that serves as a measure of some property. For example, the correlation coefficient is a measure of linear relatedness and a regression coefficient is a measure of the relationship between a predictor and a response variable.
- in algebra, a scalar that multiplies a variable in an equation. For example, in the equation y = bx, the scalar quantity b is said to be a coefficient.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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