Which of the following is true of a positive semi-definite variance-covariance matrix
A. All elements of the matrix are positive
B. The determinant of the matrix is positive
C. The matrix has ones on the diagonal
D. The matrix is internally consistent
D
The correlations between many different variables are not internally consistent unless the variance-covariance matrix is positive semi-definite.
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