The phrase "a weak correlate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a relationship or association between two variables that is not strong or significant.
Example: "In the study, we found that there is a weak correlate between exercise frequency and overall happiness levels."
Alternatives: "a tenuous link" or "a slight association".
However, drug snorting alone was only a weak correlate.
Also, a weak correlate can be obtained between size of the organisms and simple DNA content (and genome size), because D. virilis and, especially, D. grimshawi individuals are bigger than the sophophoran species considered.
It is likely that the size of the CMV-specific T-cell response (and probably responses to other infectious antigens as well) is related to the time since first exposure or duration of infection and there is general agreement that chronological age is only a weak correlate of the former (Lachmann et al., 2012).
Nevertheless, handedness is only a weak correlate of cerebral lateralization for language, and more direct investigations of brain structure and function have repeatedly revived the idea that there may be atypical cerebral lateralization in children with disorders of language and literacy.
Both the number of medical conditions and physical health status were only weak correlates of psychosocial functioning.In this sample of persons with schizophrenia, medical comorbidity was associated with depression and neurocognitive impairment but was a weaker correlate of psychosocial functioning or employment status than psychotic symptoms, depression, and neurocognitive impairment.
Recently, the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study IRASshowedwed that A1C is a weaker correlate of insulin resistance and insulin secretion in studies of metabolism compared with FPG and 2-h PG (18).
Previously, Hurst and Smith (1999) demonstrated that gene essentiality is a very weak correlate of the rates of protein evolution.
Non-discriminative stimulus cues were weak correlates of the infusion, which failed to evoke a representation of the value of cocaine and led to habitual behavior.
This is the reason that the hydrophobicity (expressed as logP) is not important (r < 0.5) in relation with the titanocene / α-cyclodextrin interaction energy, while the hydration energy (E hydr. ) weak correlates with this interaction energy (Eq. 5).
By contrast, immune cytokines were weak correlates of disease.
Tattoos and/or piercing and sharing toiletry items were weak correlates of HCV infection in prison.
