Calculating A Weighted Correlation
Suppose observations to be correlated have differing degrees of importance that can be expressed with a weight vector w. To calculate the correlation between vectors x and y with the weight vector w (all of length n),
- Weighted mean:
- Weighted covariance
- Weighted correlation
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