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Covariance as inner product



2019 Community Moderator ElectionExtrapolating GLM coefficients for year a product was sold into future years?Identity covariance matrix, decorrelated data?Handling covariance matrices of changing sizeNeural networks: which cost function to use?Advance Methods of Understanding Significance of Customer BehaviorsA statistic for testing if $mu$ which is known to be in subspace $H$, is also in subspace $H_0subseteq H$How do I convert an L2 norm to a probability?Fast way of computing covariance matrix of nonstationary kernel in Python










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Why is covariance considered as inner product if there is no projection of one vector onto another?



Right now I perceive this as just a multiplication of $x$ segment of vector($x_i - barx$) and $y$ segment($y_i - bary$) of the same vector in order to understand direction of relationship.










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    Right now I perceive this as just a multiplication of $x$ segment of vector($x_i - barx$) and $y$ segment($y_i - bary$) of the same vector in order to understand direction of relationship.










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      Why is covariance considered as inner product if there is no projection of one vector onto another?



      Right now I perceive this as just a multiplication of $x$ segment of vector($x_i - barx$) and $y$ segment($y_i - bary$) of the same vector in order to understand direction of relationship.










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      Why is covariance considered as inner product if there is no projection of one vector onto another?



      Right now I perceive this as just a multiplication of $x$ segment of vector($x_i - barx$) and $y$ segment($y_i - bary$) of the same vector in order to understand direction of relationship.







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