Coherence (statistics)
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For a different sense of the word "coherence" that is also sometimes used in statistics, see coherence (philosophical gambling strategy).
In probability theory and statistics, coherence, like correlation, gives a measure of the dependence of two random variables. The coherence of random variables X and Y is defined as
where |X| indicates absolute magnitude and E(X) denotes the expected value of a random variable X.
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