Answer to Question #255353 in Economics for Neil

Question

Statistics Q. Let a and b be constants and let for i=1,2,3....n. What is the relationship between a and b.

Answer 1

The functional connection of the two quantities is possible only on the condition that the second of them depends only on the first and on nothing else. Such connections are abstractions, in real life they are rare, but they are widely used in the exact sciences and, first of all, in mathematics. For example, the dependence of the area of a circle on the radius.