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    Being correlation Covariance/Product of two standard deviations, why does covariance's value can never bypass the one of the product of the two standard deviations? Please answer mathematically if possible.

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    Re: Correlation


    Your phrasing is very odd and I'm not sure if I fully understand you. But I think you're asking why the covariance between two random variables needs to be less than the square root of the variances for the random variables. The would be the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
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