Timeline for For intuition, what are some real life examples of uncorrelated but dependent random variables?
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| Dec 27, 2015 at 3:18 | comment | added | Russ Lenth | Draw a graph of the region where the density is nonzero and think about it. | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 2:43 | comment | added | BCLC | Well I guess physics examples are real life. Thanks rvl. Why is your example true? | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 0:55 | comment | added | Russ Lenth | The two random variables $X$ and $Y$ whose joint distribution is uniform on the doughnut. For a specific example, consider the joint density $f(x,y) = 1 / 3\pi$ when $1 < x^2+y^2 < 2$ and $0$ otherwise. | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 0:42 | comment | added | BCLC | What exactly are the two variables? | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 20:27 | history | answered | Russ Lenth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |