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This book is concerned with the application of the canonical correlation technique aiming at the clarification and solution of economic and econometric problems. Canonical correlation is the maximized correlation between a linear combination of a set of variables and a linear combination of another similar set, e.g., between the endogenous and the predetermined variables in an econometric model. The problems attacked with the help of canonical correlation, as described in the literature on the subject, are nearly all related to matters of estimation of coefficients in economic relations and models, to measuring the strictness of such relations and to the construction of new 'summarizing' economic variables. ... Zie: Summary ...