Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, ROC
Abstract:
We investigate the maximum correlation for Sarmanov bivariate distributions with fixed marginals and strengthen the existing results in the literature. The improvement in the maximum correlation is significant. A characterization of the Sarmanov distribution via chi-square divergence is also given. This extends Nelsen 13] result about the Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM) distribution.