Previous attempts at defining other correlation measures mostly tried to generalize the inner product definition used in Pearson’s correlation coefficient. This does allow for certain useful correlations, like the Greatest Deviation, or Gini’s. In this work the idea in Gideon and Hollister (1987) of seeing correlation as the difference between distance from perfect negative and perfect positive...

Previous attempts at defining other correlation measures mostly tried to generalize the inner product definition used in Pearson’s correlation coefficient. This does not allow for certain useful correlation’s, like the Greatest Deviation, or Gini’s. In this work the idea in Gideon and Hollister (1987) of seeing correlation, as the difference between distance from perfect negative and perfect po...