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Correlation

The correlation coefficient standardizes the covariance by the two standard deviations:

\[\rho(X,Y)=\dfrac{\mathrm{cov}(X,Y)}{\sigma_X\sigma_Y}\]
\[-1\leq\rho\leq 1\]

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