"covary" meaning in English

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          "text": "More specifically, to say that there is an informative criterion of diachronic identity is to say that facts of diachronic identity covary with facts about continuants’ instantaneous qualitative profiles […].",
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          "ref": "2009, C. James Goodwin, Research In Psychology: Methods and Design, John Wiley & Sons, page 175",
          "text": "The participants certainly differ in how their practice is distributed (1, 2, or 3 days), but they also differ in how much total practice they get (3, 6, or 9 hours). This is a perfect example of a confound—it is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor (distribution of practice) or the other (total practice hours); the two factors covary perfectly.",
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        "To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive"
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        "(statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "vary together",
          "word": "kovarioida"
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