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Q53Section C (Section C)53 of 60

Correlation of sign-flipped normals

Let X1X_{1} and X2X_{2} be independent N(0,1)N(0,1) random variables. Define sgn⁡(u)={−1,if u<00,if u=01,if u>0\operatorname{sgn}(u)=\begin{cases}-1,&\text{if }u<0\\0,&\text{if }u=0\\1,&\text{if }u>0\end{cases} Let Y1=X1sgn⁡(X2)Y_{1}=X_{1}\operatorname{sgn}(X_{2}) and Y2=X2sgn⁡(X1)Y_{2}=X_{2}\operatorname{sgn}(X_{1}). If the correlation coefficient between Y1Y_{1} and Y2Y_{2} is α\alpha, then πα\pi\alpha is equal to __________.

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