Question

Iva is studying whether students gain weight during their first year of college. she collects weights from all the incoming freshmen in the fall, then collects weights from them again at the end of the spring term. what is the term for the correlation she finds when she compares the fall and spring weights of the students?

Answer 1

The term for the correlation she finds when she compares the fall and spring weights of the students is autocorrelations.  This is because this is a correlation of one variable with itself, measured on two different occasions, both the spring and the fall.