Correlation under rescaling
The correlation between random variables and is . What is the correlation ?
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- Write correlation as covariance divided by the two standard deviations, then push the transformations through.
- A positive scale multiplies both numerator and one denominator factor by the same amount; a shift changes nothing. What's left?
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