Here we establish the characteristics of a bivariate normal
distribution. Note that this is
not a standard bivariate normal distribution with independent X and Y
variables. The joint marginal distribution is therefore not in the form f(x)*f(y). We instead have a more complex joint marginal distribution of the form f(x)*f(y|x), or symmetrically f(y)*f(x|y). See this distribution formula build-up, below:
We can observe from the penultimate formula above that the distribution of Y, given X=x, is normally distributed. The variable Y it shows, from the the exponent, has a mean and variance of:
How does one solve for the level of x needed to create a
conditional mean of Y that is 2 and 3 standard deviationsy above
this x level?
For Y at 2 standard deviationsy above the x
level:
Similarly for Y at 3 standard deviationsy above
the x level:
We will complement these results with a graphical simulation in a forthcoming blog note.
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