In mathematics and statistics, a direct relationship is a positive relationship between two variables in which they both increase or decrease in conjunction. Euclid, detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... In computer science and mathematics, a variable (sometimes called a pronumeral) is a symbol denoting a quantity or symbolic representation. ...
For example, there is a direct relationship between age and risk for heart disease. The older you get, the more likely you are to get the disease; and the younger you are, the less likely you are to get it.
Contrast with Inverse relationship. A negative, or inverse relationship is a mathematical relationship in which one variable decreases as another rises. ...
Direct marketing, relationship marketing, and database marketing are major buzz words in the fields of consumer marketing and business-to-business marketing.
Direct marketing often involves the use of direct response advertising (typically there is a phone number and/or address in the advertisement) to generate a response (e.g., sale, inquiry, donation, membership).
Relationship marketing refers to a philosophy that a company that wishes to succeed should develop a strong, lifetime (or at least a very long-term) relationship with their customers.
the relationship of the Hectemoroi was not simply the result of economic pressures and debts, but expressed a traditional social status of inferiority which came into existence during the Greek Adark ages@ (1100-800 B.C.), when the weak and the poor offered their services to the powerful in return for their protection.
These unequal relationships at the economic level are reproduced at the political one, where the tendency for concentration of political power in the European Community institutions enables the economically stronger areas to impose directly their will on the weaker ones.
Direct local economic democracy, in conjunction with the development of forms of direct local political democracy, could become the basis for a new form of democracy that might constitute, after 2,500 years, the real completion of the Athenian democracy.