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Problem 223 of 333MediumStatisticsP223
Standard error with correlated observations
You average observations, each with variance , where every pair has correlation (for example, the same-day returns of stocks).
(a) Find .
(b) With and , what is the effective sample size, meaning the number of independent observations that would give the same variance?
(c) What happens to the standard error as ?
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