covariancy

/K OW1 V EH1 R IY0 AH0 N S IY0/
noun
  1. 1

    Alternative form of covariance. [(statistics) A statistical measure defined as scriptstyle operatorname Cov(X,Y)= operatorname E((X-μ)(Y-ν)) given two real-valued random variables X and Y, with expected values scriptstyle E(X),=,μ and scriptstyle E(Y),=,ν.]