Chapter 7: Q.48 (page 355)
A fair die is successively rolled. Let X and Y denote, respectively, the number of rolls necessary to obtain a 6 and a 5. Find
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Chapter 7: Q.48 (page 355)
A fair die is successively rolled. Let X and Y denote, respectively, the number of rolls necessary to obtain a 6 and a 5. Find
(a) ;
(b) ;
(c) ;
(a)
(b)
(c)
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A certain region is inhabited by r distinct types of a certain species of insect. Each insect caught will, independently of the types of the previous catches, be of type i with probability
(a) Compute the mean number of insects that are caught before the first type catch.
(b) Compute the mean number of types of insects that are caught before the first type catch.
Show that is stochastically larger than if and only if
for all increasing functions .
Hint: Show that , then by showing that and then using Theoretical Exercise 7.7. To show that if for all increasing functions , then , define an appropriate increasing function .
A deck of n cards numbered 1 through n is thoroughly shuffled so that all possible n! orderings can be assumed to be equally likely. Suppose you are to make n guesses sequentially, where the ith one is a guess of the card in position i. Let N denote the number of correct guesses.
(a) If you are not given any information about your earlier guesses, show that for any strategy, E[N]=1.
(b) Suppose that after each guess you are shown the card that was in the position in question. What do you think is the best strategy? Show that under this strategy
(c) Supposethatyouaretoldaftereachguesswhetheryou are right or wrong. In this case, it can be shown that the strategy that maximizes E[N] is one that keeps on guessing the same card until you are told you are correct and then changes to a new card. For this strategy, show that
Hint: For all parts, express N as the sum of indicator (that is, Bernoulli) random variables.
In Problem 7.9, compute the variance of the number of empty urns.
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