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Correlation functions consist of a broad variety of statistical tests, used to describe the relationship between two, or more, sets of data. Those functions, whether they are parametric or non-parametric, are used in medical studies to characterize the strength of this relationship, and the direction of the relationship.
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Gust et al. (2015) studied this question.