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(yet another) question on joint prob dist

October 20th, 2009, 7:20 am

hello,suppose I have to correlated assets S1 and S2. If i want to value a claim C(S1_T1, S2_T2, K1, K2, T1,T2) can I separate the joint prob density, i.e. p(S1_T1,S2_T2) = p(S1_T1)*p(S2_T2)?? Note that T1 <> T2, hence my question on whether or not it is possible to separate the joint prob density.thanks
 
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(yet another) question on joint prob dist

October 23rd, 2009, 10:07 pm

if they are correlated then that implies they are not independent which implies that the joint probability distribution can't be written as a product of pdfs of each variables separately.