Covariance
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Function Description
Returns the (sample) covariance
between
two series,
and
.
The (sample) covariance is calculated as:

where
is
the mean of the
-th series etc.
Please note that the Nematrian website’s equivalent to
Microsoft Excel’s COVAR is the population covariance, i.e. MnPopulationCovariance
rather than this function.
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