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block form:
:

Then, by Schur's formula for block-matrix inversion,
:

The entries of the right-hand-side matrix are precisely the covariances previously computed in , giving
:

Using the formula for the inverse of a 2×2 matrix gives
:

So indeed, the partial correlation is
:

as claimed in .

Interpretation

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Geometrical

Let three variables

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