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Most often, we are interested in linear combinations of the variables . In this section, we investigate the means, variances, and covariances of linear combinations.

Let be constants and consider the linear combination of the elements of the vector ,

(3.10)

where . If the same coefficient vector is applied to each in a sample, we have

(3.11)

For example, if , we have