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 March 29th, 2018, 06:24 PM #1 Member   Joined: Mar 2017 From: Israel Posts: 84 Thanks: 2 Statistics Hello Can you help me please about the next exercise: For 25 students, math scores and physics scores were recorded, the average of the two exams was identical, which is 75, and the standard deviation of the two exams was identical too, which is 12. What is the value of pearson correlation coefficient? (if it exists). I tried to find it, but I did not succeed. In my opinion - it doesn't exist, because I don't have enough data from the question. I'm not sure, it's just my opinion, maybe I'm missing something. Thanks!
 March 30th, 2018, 09:08 AM #2 Senior Member     Joined: Sep 2015 From: USA Posts: 2,367 Thanks: 1272 You aren't told, and there is no way of determining, whether the two scores are independent. If they are independent the correlation coefficient is zero as $E[P M] = E[P]E[M]$ Without having you hands on the joint distribution in some form you can't compute the correlation.
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 Originally Posted by romsek You aren't told, and there is no way of determining, whether the two scores are independent. If they are independent the correlation coefficient is zero as $E[P M] = E[P]E[M]$ Without having you hands on the joint distribution in some form you can't compute the correlation.
I'm sorry, but what do you mean "independent"?
I understood the word, but i didn't understand what did you mean.

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 Originally Posted by IlanSherer I'm sorry, but what do you mean "independent"? I understood the word, but i didn't understand what did you mean.
You have studied probability to the point that you are computing correlation coefficients but you don't know what it is for two random variables to be statistically independent?

I don't know how this is possible.

Revisit your text. Independence of random variables is a fundamental concept.

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 Originally Posted by romsek You have studied probability to the point that you are computing correlation coefficients but you don't know what it is for two random variables to be statistically independent? I don't know how this is possible. Revisit your text. Independence of random variables is a fundamental concept.
Oh sorry, yes they are independent.
But why the answer is 0?

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 Originally Posted by IlanSherer Oh sorry, yes they are independent. But why the answer is 0?
$\rho = \dfrac{E[MP]-E[M]E[P]}{\sigma_M \sigma_P} = 0$

when

$E[MP]=E[M]E[P]$

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