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Admissible Bernoulli correlations

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  • Mark Huber

    (Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Av)

  • Nevena Marić

    (University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1 University Blvd, 311 Express Scripts Hall)

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A multivariate symmetric Bernoulli distribution has marginals that are uniform over the pair {0,1}. Consider the problem of sampling from this distribution given a prescribed correlation between each pair of variables. Not all correlation structures can be attained. Here we completely characterize the admissible correlation vectors as those given by convex combinations of simpler distributions. This allows us to bijectively relate the correlations to the well-known CUTn polytope, as well as determine if the correlation is possible through a linear programming formulation.

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  • Mark Huber & Nevena Marić, 2019. "Admissible Bernoulli correlations," Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jstada:v:6:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1186_s40488-019-0091-5
    DOI: 10.1186/s40488-019-0091-5
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