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Covariance of two sample means

I am trying to derive the covariance of two sample means and get confused at one point. Given is a sample of size $n$ with paired dependent observations $x_i$ and $y_i$ as realizations of RVs $X$ and $...
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Covariance term in simple linear regression

I am trying to derive the expression for the variance of $\hat{\beta_0}$ in simple linear regression. I substitute $\bar{y} - \hat{\beta_1} \bar{x}$ for $\hat \beta_0$, but in the intermediate steps ...
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Covariance of $\mathbf{x}$ and $\mathbf{x}^\prime A \mathbf{x}$ when $\mathbf{x} \sim N_{m}(\mu, \Sigma)$

This is part of problem 5.23 in A First Course in Linear Model Theory, Dey and Ravishanker. It was on a previous midterm and I didn't know how to do it, but now I am studying for the final and would ...
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