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Covariance

A measure of the extent to which two economic or statistical variables move up and down together. For two variables x and y with values xi, yi, i=1,…,n, the covariance is cov(x,y) = i=1…n(xi-m(x))(yi-m(y)), where m(•) is the mean of the values in its argument.

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