A Multi-Way Correlation Coefficient

03/05/2020
by   Benjamin M. Taylor, et al.
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Pearson's correlation is an important summary measure of the amount of dependence between two variables. It is natural to want to generalise the concept of correlation as a single number that measures the inter-relatedness of three or more variables e.g. how `correlated' are a collection of variables in which non are specifically to be treated as an `outcome'? In this short article, we introduce such a measure, and show that it reduces to the modulus of Pearson's r in the two dimensional case.

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