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Problem 272 of 333MediumStatisticsP272
PCA of equicorrelated assets
You have assets with unit variance and the same pairwise correlation between every pair. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the correlation matrix. What fraction of total variance does the first principal component explain, and what happens as ? For which is the matrix a valid correlation matrix?
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