Statistics 110 Lecture 21: Covariance and Correlation
by Joe Blitzstein · Harvard University
Harvard lecture introducing covariance and correlation, then using bilinearity to compute the variance of a sum of dependent variables, worked through to the variance of a Hypergeometric random variable.
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