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Problem 8.1P:
Suppose that X is a random variable with mean and variance both equal to 20. What can be said about...Problem 8.2P:
From past experience, a professor knows that the test score of a student taking her final...Problem 8.4P:
Let X1,...,X20 be independent Poisson random variables with mean 1. a. Use the Markov inequality to...Problem 8.5P:
Fifty numbers are rounded off to the nearest integer and then summed. If the individual round-off...Problem 8.6P:
A die is continually rolled until the total sum of all rolls exceeds 300. Approximate the...Problem 8.7P:
A person has 100 light bulbs whose lifetimes are independent exponentials with mean 5 hours. If the...Problem 8.8P:
In Problem 8.7, suppose that it takes a random time, uniformly distributed over (0, .5), to replace...Problem 8.9P:
If X is a gamma random variable with parameters (n,1), approximately how large must n be so that...Problem 8.10P:
Civil engineers believe that W, the amount of weight (in units of 1000 pounds) that a certain span...Problem 8.11P:
Many people believe that the daily change of price of a companys stock on the stock market is a...Problem 8.12P:
We have 100 components that we will put in use in a sequential fashion. That is, component 1 is...Problem 8.13P:
Student scores on exams given by a certain instructor have mean 74 and standard deviation 14. This...Problem 8.14P:
A certain component is critical to the operation of an electrical system and must be replaced...Problem 8.15P:
An insurance company has 10.000 automobile policyholders. The expected yearly claim per policyholder...Problem 8.16P:
A.J. has 20 jobs that she must do in sequence, with the times required to do each of these jobs...Problem 8.17P:
Redo Example 5b under the assumption that the number of man—woman pairs is (approximately)...Problem 8.18P:
Repeat part (a) of Problem 8.2 when it is known that the variance of a students test score is equal...Problem 8.19P:
A lake contains 4 distinct types of fish. Suppose that each fish caught is equally likely to be any...Problem 8.20P:
If X is a nonne9ative random variable with mean 25, what can be said about a. E[X3]? b. E[X]? c....Problem 8.23P:
Let X be a Poisson random variable with mean 20. a. Use the Markov inequality to obtain an upper...Problem 8.26P:
If f(x) is an Increasing and g(x) is a decreasing function, show that E[f(X)g(X)]E[f(X)E][g(X)].Problem 8.27P:
If L(p) is the Lorenz curve associated with the random variable X, show thatL(p)=E[X][Xp]pE[X]Problem 8.28P:
Suppose that L(p) is the Lorenz curve associated with the random variable X and thatc0. a. Find the...Problem 8.1TE:
If X has variance 2, then , the positive square root of the variance, is called the standard...Problem 8.2TE:
If X has mean and standard deviation , the ratio r|| is called the measurement signal-to-noise...Problem 8.3TE:
Compute the measurement signal-to-noise ratio-that is ||, where =E[X] and 2=var(X) -of the following...Problem 8.4TE:
Let Zn,n1, be a sequence of random variables and ca constant such that for each0,P{|Znc|}0 as n....Problem 8.8TE:
Explain why a gamma random variable with parameters (t,) has an approximately normal distribution...Problem 8.15TE:
If f and g are density functions that are positive over the same region, then the kullback-leiber...Problem 8.1STPE:
The number of automobiles sold weekly at a certain dealership is a random variable with expected...Problem 8.3STPE:
If E[X]=75E[Y]=75Var(X)=10var(Y)=12cov(X,Y)=3 give an upper bound to a. P{|XY|15}; b. P{XY+15}; c....Problem 8.10STPE:
A tobacco company claims that the amount of nicotine in one of its cigarettes is a random variable...Problem 8.13STPE:
The strong law of large numbers states that with probability 1, the successive arithmetic averages...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 1 - Combinatorial AnalysisChapter 2 - Axioms Of ProbabilityChapter 3 - Conditional Probability And IndependenceChapter 4 - Random VariablesChapter 5 - Continuous Random VariablesChapter 6 - Jointly Distributed Random VariablesChapter 7 - Properties Of ExpectationChapter 8 - Limit TheoremsChapter 9 - Additional Topics In ProbabilityChapter 10 - Simulation
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