The phrase "a small correlation between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relationship or association between two variables or factors, particularly in statistical or research contexts.
Example: "The study found a small correlation between exercise frequency and overall happiness levels among participants."
Alternatives: "a slight relationship between" or "a minor association between".
They found only a small correlation between "care" reasoning and women and "justice" reasoning and men.
A statistical model created by Ofer Azar, at the Ben-Gurion Universitheof the Negev, found only a small correlation between tip size and service quality, leading him to conclude that servers were motivated mainly by other factors (such as opportunities for professional advancement or — wild idea — simply the satisfaction of doing a good job).
We find only a small correlation between voting activity and the number of fans.
And when Kahan crunched the numbers, they revealed a small correlation between science comprehension and political leaning.
Instead, the calculated R and R 2 scores showed only a small correlation between the independent and dependent variables.
Pedullà et al. assessed six different root canal instrumentation systems and have shown a small correlation between root canal instrumentation and dentinal defect creation (Pedulla et al. 2017).
Obviously, this results in a smaller correlation between the assets of parents and their direct descendants.
The results indicate that the variance of the values is larger for the degraded video frames, indicating a smaller correlation between the neighbour pixels.
For the total sample, there is no significant correlation between flexi-time and contracted or preferred hours, and a small correlation (0.017) between flexi-time and actual hours.
Alternatively, a small correlation coefficient between coda Q and the strain rate at the 2 4 Hz frequency band is possibly interpreted to mean that the deformation rate in the lower crust in the northeastern part might be smaller than that in the central part.
A small correlation coefficient between the HIT-6 and the number of HDPM was also expected.
