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1 Review of Probability - Columbia University

Note in passing that P(X > k) = (1−p)k, k ≥ 0 Remark 1 3 As a variation on the geometric, if we change X to denote the number of failures before the first success, and denote this by Y, then (since the first flip might be



The Normal Distribution - Stanford University

P(X=k) k Déjà vu? f X(x) x X = sum of n independent Uni(0, 1) variables image: Thomasda “The normal distribution”



Lecture 24 - UH

X xk, if x < 1 p-series: X 1 kp, if p > 1 Basic Series that Diverge Any series X a k for which lim k→∞ a k 6= 0 p-series: X 1 kp, if p ≤ 1 Convergence Tests (1) Basic Test for Convergence KeepinMindthat, if a k 9 0, then the series P a k diverges; therefore there is no reason to apply any special convergence test Examples 1 P xk with



properties of variance - University of Washington

P(X=k) µ ± 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 00 0 05 0 10 0 15 0 20 0 25 PMF for X ~ Bin(30,0 1) k P(X=k) µ ± using k=1 gives: hence: letting j = i-1 mean and variance of



Random Variables and Probability Distributions

P(X x k) f(x k) k 1, 2, (1) It is convenient to introduce the probability function, also referred to as probability distribution, given by P(X x) f(x) (2) For x x k, this reduces to (1) while for other values of x, f(x) 0 In general, f(x) is a probability function if 1 f(x) 0 2 where the sum in 2 is taken over all possible values of x



Homework 5 (Math/Stats 425, Winter 2013) - Statistics

P(X = k) = n k pk(1−p)n−k d dp P(X = k) = k n k pk−1(1−p)n−k − (n−k) n k pk(1−p)n−k−1 = 0 p = k n 6 Let X be a Poisson random variable with parameter λ Find the value of λ which maximizes P(X = k) for a given non-negative integer k Solution: P(X = k) = λk k e−λ d dλ P(X = k) = k λk−1 k e−λ − λk k e−λ



Conditional Probability

pXZ=n(k) = P(X = k,Z = n) P(Z = n) = P(X = k)P(Y = n−k) P(Z = n) = e−λ1 · λ k 1 k ·e −λ2 · λ n−k 2 (n−k) e−(λ1+λ2) · (λ1+λ2) n n = n k · λ1 λ1 +λ2 k · λ2 λ1 +λ2 n−k Hence the conditional distribution of X given X + Y = n is a binomial distribution with parameters n and λ1 λ1+λ2 E(XX +Y = n) = λ1n λ1



RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

pX(x), satisfythe conditions: a: pX(x) ≥ 0 for each value within its domain b: P x pX(x)=1,where the summationextends over all the values within itsdomain 1 5 Examples of probability mass functions 1 5 1 Example 1 Find a formula for the probability distribution of the total number of heads ob-tained in four tossesof a balanced coin



Binomial Distribution

P( X > 150 ) = 0 4101 Find the 75th percentile > qnorm(0 75, 145, 22) Bret Larget September 17, 2003 R Help Probability Distributions Fall 2003 [1] 159 8388

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