The phrase "a partial association" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a relationship or connection that is not complete or fully established.
Example: "The study revealed a partial association between diet and health outcomes, indicating that other factors may also play a significant role."
Alternatives: "a limited connection" or "an incomplete relationship."
In extreme cases, a partial association of the colloidal particles linked by the common counterions is observed.
Furthermore, our analyses using ChIP-seq and iPOND detected a partial association of Plk1 with some DSB sites and replication forks.
The 32 germ cells within the germaria enter into early meiotic prophase (zygotene) and a partial association between bivalents occurs [ 7].
Among these patients only a partial association between the level of exposure and the degree of respiratory symptoms was observed, which could be because of a high inter-individual difference in sensitivity and time-dependent changes in the chemical composition of the aerosol.
Working long hours of overtime, Swiss government and EU officials have since hammered out a temporary "partial association" deal so Swiss scientists can compete for about 30% of Horizon 2020 funding, including highly competitive – and hugely prestigious – European Research Council (ERC) grants.
The final model retained all three effects and their interaction terms (for k = 3, χ(14) = 369.7, p < .001), with a significant partial association between voxels responding to difficulty and those responding to feature type (χ(1) = 55.9, p < .001).001
A possible partial association between the concentration of aeromonads and skin ailments (cutireactions) was detectable, but it was overlaid by an unknown independent water-related effect; that is, there must have been other causes for cutireactions among bathers that were not associated with the microorganisms monitored in the present study.
Since the MH method is targeted at detecting average effects across strata, it is a common method for assessing average partial association.
Later, we also tested the method in a real world dataset of a partial genome association study in asthma [ 13].
However, we cannot rule out either that the occasional (five events detected) partial association of RON12 with the MJ is not an artefact of fixation.
As discussed above, employment rates are also plausibly influenced by labor market policy: in columns 2 and 3, the coefficient of inequality is barely affected by inclusion of the employment rate; the latter's positive partial association with total productivity may be generated by labor policy variation, or perhaps by labor supply reactions to exogenous productivity variation.
