NO.PZ2015120604000064
问题如下:
According to the above table, what is the correlation of X and Y, given the joint probability table above?
选项:
A.-0.98.
B.0.16.
C.0.98.
解释:
A is correct
,
Cov(X,Y)=-4.8, standard deviations of X and Y are 1.90 and 2.58, as calculated before,
thus correlation of X and Y is -0.98
因为要求correlation,所以要分别求出公式里面的covariance和standard deviation
- 分别求E(x)和E(y),得出1和1.6
- 求方差variance,然后开根号得出标准差standard deviation,-->1.8974和2.5768
- 求covariance: - 4.8
- 把第二点的标准差和第三点的协方差带入correlation的公式求出结果