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Correlation and Covariance

Q2. What is the co-variance of two independent random variables?

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Correlation and Covariance

Q3. Are independence and zero covariance the same? Give a counterexample if not.

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Q4. Suppose we have a random variable X supported on $[0,1]$ from which we can draw samples. How can we come up with an unbiased estimate of the median of X?

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Correlation and Covariance

Q5. Define variance and co-variance. What is the difference between them?

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Q6. How does sign of covariance decides the direction of relationship between two random variables?

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Correlation and Covariance

Q7. Suppose you are conducting an experiment for studying behavior of two random variables $X$ and $Y$ and you found out $Cov(X, Y) = 100$. Does it mean they are strongly correlated?

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Q9. Prove that $Cov(X, Y) = E(XY) - E(X)E(Y)$.

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Q10. What will be the value of $Cov(X, c) where$ X $is a random variable and$ c$ is a constant value?

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  1. Cov(X)Cov(X)2.cCov(X) cCov(X)3.c2Cov(X) c^2Cov(X)4. 00

Correlation and Covariance

Q11. Write down some properties of Covariance.

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Q12. Define correlation. How is it related to Covariance?

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Q13. What are the benefits of using correlation over covariance?

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Q14. If you are analyzing two random variables $X$ and $Y$ and find that the correlation $\rho(X, Y) = 0$, what does this indicate?

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Q15. Can the correlation be greater than 1? Why or why not? How to interpret a correlation value of 0.3?

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Correlation and Covariance

Q16. What is the Pearson correlation coefficient, and how is it calculated?

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Q17. What is the significance of a correlation coefficient value of 0?

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Q18. What is the difference between positive and negative correlation?

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Q19. What are some limitations of the Pearson correlation coefficient?

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Q20. Can you have a high correlation without causation?

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