On 06-Jul-05 Göran Broström wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:06:45AM -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: > (...) >> If X, Y, and Z are independent and Z takes on more than one >> value then X/Z and Y/Z can't be independent. > > Not really true. I can produce a counterexample on request > (admittedly quite trivial though). > > Göran Broström
But true if both X and Y have positive probability of being non-zero, n'est-pas? Tut, tut, Göran! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Jul-05 Time: 00:51:24 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
