IT has for some time been realized that the ordinary test of significance of the correlation coefficient cannot be applied indiscriminately to pairs of time series, since serially adjacent ...

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Correlation coefficients range from -1 to +1, indicating the strength of relationships between variables. Investors use correlation coefficients for portfolio diversification to reduce risk.