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Problem 223 of 333MediumStatisticsP223

Standard error with correlated observations

  1. You average nn observations, each with variance σ2\sigma^2, where every pair has correlation ρ>0\rho > 0 (for example, the same-day returns of nn stocks).

    (a) Find Var(Xˉ)\text{Var}(\bar{X}).

    (b) With n=100n = 100 and ρ=0.1\rho = 0.1, 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 n→∞n \to \infty?