do you want to include anything about the variables: categorical, continuous, etc.
anyway, my interpretation of your function is that you are interested in assessing whether the two variables are independent, i.e. the likelihood they happen simultaneously is the product of their separate likelihoods. so the chisquare test of independence or even a linear correlation ala pearson come to mind. does this help? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linda) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I have 1000 observations of 2 RVs from an experiments. X is the > independent variable and Y is the dependent variable. How do I perform > the test whether the following statement is true or not?? > > f(X,Y)=f(X)f(Y) > > > Linda ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
