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In this post I would like someone to summarize and relate these 3 concepts of statistics (in the context of stats).

1) I remember that uncorrelated does NOT imply independence (e.g. the case where the RV $X=Y^2$, correlation=0 but they are dependent in a nonlinear way. (as mentioned here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncorrelated_random_variables)

2)However can we say that independent implies uncorrelated, i.e. Pearson corr. coef. = 0 ?

3)For orthogonality: - Does orthogonal imply uncorrelated ? (i think yes) - Does uncorrelated imply orthogonal?

4) There are definitions of orthogonal w.r.t. Expected value as: $E[XY]$=0

A definition of uncorrelated is: $E[XY]=E[X]E[Y]$

how can we relate both (e.g. with an example) ?

5) Finally, what to say if X and Y are vector RVs ? Does $E[XY]$ goes down to a dot product of X and Y ? ( I m trying to refresh an reorganize my knowledge in my head so would be great to have like a "summary post" or "cheat sheet" here)

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  • $\begingroup$ A sec of googling yields stats.stackexchange.com/questions/171324/… $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 1, 2018 at 12:06
  • $\begingroup$ thanks yes I know that post, which is good, but I am not entirely satisfied an wanted to create another one here. It doen't hurt to summarize briefly again those concepts i think $\endgroup$
    – SheppLogan
    Commented Apr 1, 2018 at 12:08
  • $\begingroup$ the idea here would be to briefly (e.g. ~1 sentence) summarize each for example $\endgroup$
    – SheppLogan
    Commented Apr 1, 2018 at 12:08
  • $\begingroup$ Moreover, after reading posts like : stats.stackexchange.com/questions/12128/… it seems especially that the concept of orthogonality in statistics is still often confusing, i.e., what does it really mean for 2 RV to be "at right angle"? $\endgroup$
    – SheppLogan
    Commented Apr 1, 2018 at 13:30
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    $\begingroup$ Can you explain what you do not understand in that linked post? Just rewriting the same here that you do not understand there do no good. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 1, 2018 at 15:24

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