What Is Second Order Sample Autocorrelation?
A)correlation Between a Mean $\sigma$

question 18

Multiple Choice

What is second order sample autocorrelation?

• A)correlation between a mean and the second moment of the sample distribution
• B)a test statistic distributed N(0,\(\sigma\))
• C)correlation between observations that are two time periods apart
• D)correlation between the dependent variable and a squared explanatory variable

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