Compute the variance of $Z=g(X,Y)$

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If $X,Y$ are two random variables, $g$ is a continuous function. In most books, we only discuss how to calculate the expected value of $g(X,Y)$.

My question: how to calculate the variance of $g(X,Y)$? Does the following relation hold?

$Var(g(X,Y))=E(g(X,Y)^2)–[E(g(X,Y)]^2$