Partial Correlation
If a population or data-set is characterized by more than two variables, a partial correlation coefficient measures the strength of dependence between a pair of variables that is not accounted for by the way in which they both change in response to variations in a selected subset of the other variables.
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“You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is Gods.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 1:17.