APA Dictionary of Psychology
matrix
- n.
- a context or environment within which something else is enclosed, embedded, originates, or develops.
- a rectangular ordered arrangement (array) of numbers in rows and columns. Individual items in a matrix are called elements or entries. Many different types of matrices are used in statistics, such as the correlation matrix and the covariance matrix.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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