The phrase "a poor correlation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relationship or connection between two variables or sets of data that is weak or not significant.
Example: "The study revealed a poor correlation of exercise frequency and weight loss among participants."
Alternatives: "a weak correlation of" or "a low correlation of".
We showed that the build-up of contrast agent in the PC295 tumors was very slow, and in many areas, little wash-out was visible at the end of the scanning time, resulting in a poor correlation of wash-out and TTP with SPECT uptake.
This might cause a poor correlation of CST with bird trends if bird species' population responses smooth out the effects of such short-term extreme fluctuations to a greater extent than the statistical procedure used to fit the CST regressions.
Overall there is a poor correlation of synonymous and nonsynonymous rates.
After the artifact the first heartbeat showed a poor correlation of cycle length detection due to a changed amplitude pattern.
In our prior study [ 29], we observed a poor correlation of CCL mutational status with the status of the accompanying carcinoma.
A poor correlation of steady state Axin concentration for Model 1 with the data was observed before optimization (see Additional file 1: Figure S2).
Cord tissue PCB concentrations correlated as well as milk (r = 0.88), although with an average ratio of 0.64, while placenta concentrations showed a poorer correlation of 0.53.
This clinically meaningful case selection addresses the criticism of risk-standardised outcomes that there is a poor correlation between quality of care provided and probability of death [ 42, 49].
These studies compared ECOM with either pulmonary artery [12, 13] or transpulmonary [14] thermodilution and with transesophageal echocardiography [13] and found a poor correlation and lack of agreement in the setting of cardiac surgery.
Additionally, after reperfusion there was at best a poor correlation between recovery of ATP content and the duration of ischemia.
These results are consistent with the view that eye-of-origin information involves monocular cells within primary visual cortex that typically exhibit a poor correlation with measures of conscious awareness [33].
