covariance
noun/koʊˈvɛriəns/
Frequency rank: #19,134 most common English word
Meaning
A measure of how much two random variables change together, indicating the direction of their linear relationship.
Example sentence
The statistician calculated the covariance between height and weight to understand how the two variables move together.
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