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Covariance is a quantity used to measure the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables. The covariance is unscaled, & thus often difficult to interpret; when scaled by the variables' SDs, it becomes Pearson's correlation coefficient.

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Can you use Kendall's Tau to compute covariance matrix?

I am working with multivariate archimedean copulas, and I am wondering how I can extract a covariance matrix out of them? … If not, is there a way to compute a covariance matrix from Copulas? I am using the HACopula package from J. Górecki on Matlab to fit the multivariate Clayton and Gumbel. …
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