337.Three Equally Correlated Variables
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Three random variables X, Y and Z have all three pairwise correlations equal to the same value r. What is the smallest value r can take?
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A correlation matrix must be positive semi-definite. Test it against the vector of all ones, or consider the variance of X + Y + Z.
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