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An equicorrelated matrix · Part 4 of 4
A correlation matrix is equicorrelated: every pair of assets has the same correlation , and every diagonal entry is 1. The parts vary the number of assets and .
With ten assets and , what fraction of total variance does the first principal component explain?
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