corrcoef maths

Does anyone have a link to the mathematical background for the corrcoef function in matlab? I want to try and understand how the function works but its hard with the description given in doc corrcoef.

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Hi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient

Or look up Pearson correlation in any basic statistics textbook.

[Richard]

thanks