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Covariance

Term · Insurance and risk management · MLC-T-INS-001005

A statistical measure indicating the directional relationship between the returns of two assets or variables. A positive covariance suggests that the variables move in the same direction, while a negative covariance indicates they move in opposite directions. It is calculated as the expected value of the product of the deviations of two variables from their respective means.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-INS-001005
FieldInsurance and risk management
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-INS-001005",
  "term": "Covariance",
  "field": "Insurance and risk management",
  "definition": "A statistical measure indicating the directional relationship between the returns of two assets or variables. A positive covariance suggests that the variables move in the same direction, while a negative covariance indicates they move in opposite directions. It is calculated as the expected value of the product of the deviations of two variables from their respective means.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/insurance/covariance/"
}

Record 803 of 3,682 in Insurance and risk management terminology (MLC-0106). Request the full dataset.