Abstract
A popular measure of the relationship between two variables is the correlation coefficient, which is defined in populations as
and an estimator is given by
We shall refer to a particular value of the sample coefficient by r
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Wetherill, G.B. (1981). Correlation. In: Intermediate Statistical Methods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5836-4_9
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