Wednesday, August 24, 2016

probability - Binomial random variable expectation bound

Let $X,Y \sim \text{Bin}(n,0.5)$ for some positive $n$.



What is a lower bound for $\mathbb{E}(XY)$? When is it achieved?



My try:



I got confused by the following two results and couldn't proceed!




By Jensen's, $\mathbb{E}(XY) \geq \mathbb{E}(X)\mathbb{E}(Y)$. But we also know that $\text{cov}(X,Y)=\mathbb{E}(XY) - \mathbb{E}(X)\mathbb{E}(Y)$, and this quantity can be negative!



Please help me to proceed. Thanks in advance!

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