This quantity is maximized by weight vectors in a “canonical” method for analyzing this quantity. Separation indices accounting for measurement error are used in a “disattenuation” for this quantity. A term proportional to “one minus this quantity squared, all over 2n” is added to this quantity to obtain its “adjusted” form. One rank coefficient for this quantity is equal to [read slowly] “one minus twice the number of discordant pairs divided by n choose two.” This quantity for some X and Y is equal to their covariance divided by the product of their standard deviations. Pearson’s coefficient for this quantity takes values between negative 1 and 1 and is symbolized r. For 10 points, name this statistical quantity that measures the relation between two variables and is often mistaken with causation. ■END■
ANSWER: correlation [accept Pearsons’s correlation coefficient or Kendall’s correlation coefficient or rank correlation coefficient; accept correlation disattenuation or canonical correlation analysis; prompt on Pearson’s r; prompt on Kendall’s tau; reject “r-squared”]
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