The concept of correlations between different assets is a cornerstone of Markowitz's optimal portfolio theory, especially for risk management purposes (Markowitz 1968). In a nutshell, correlations ...
X ij = [x ij1, ... , x ijp]' The Generalized Estimating Equation of Liang and Zeger (1986) for estimating the p ×1 vector of regression parameters is an extension of the independence estimating ...