Consider lognormal random variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ with correlation coefficient $ρ$ and a partial observation sample of them of length N, the sample being partial because it only contains occurrences of ($X_1$ , $X_2$) when $X_1 > X_2$.
Is there a way to estimate the variance and covariance of $X_1$ and $X_2$ only from this partial sample?
Correlation of log-normal random variables gives the formula for the covariance in the case of $X_1$ and $X_2$ beeing lognormals (notations differ). Can I write a conditionnal covariance like:
$cov(X_1 , X_2 | Z>0)$ with $Z=X_1 - X_2$ and derive a formula for this (similar to the one in Correlation of log-normal random variables)? Then, is it possible to find from this the unconditional covariance?
Is this possible for gaussian variables? Or for any distribution?
