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The key feature of distance correlation is that if it is $0$ then two variables are independent. If the pearson correlation is zero, however, this does not imply independence. How would one interpret distance correlation?

amoeba
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    I believe some help is provided in the [Wikipedia article on "energy distance"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_distance). – whuber Apr 17 '13 at 15:38

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