\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,amscd,concmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{equation*} C(i)=\frac{1}{\text{var}} \frac{1}{N-i} \sum_{t=1}^{N-i} (x_t-mean)*(x_{t+i}-mean) \end{equation*} \end{document}