Correlation coefficient (Space Syntax)

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Correlation coefficient usually deployed in the space syntax analysis is Pearson’s r, a measure of the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables that is defined in terms of the sample covariance and the variables divided by their standard deviation.

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Space Syntax Glossary

Spiegel, M. (1992) “Correlation Theory.” Ch14 in Theory and Problems of Probability and Statistics, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 294-323.