Chapter 7: Q.7.76 (page 358)
Let be the value of the first die and the sum of the values when two dice are rolled. Compute the joint moment generating function of and .
Short Answer
The joint moment generating functions ofandare.
Chapter 7: Q.7.76 (page 358)
Let be the value of the first die and the sum of the values when two dice are rolled. Compute the joint moment generating function of and .
The joint moment generating functions ofandare.
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density function . Show that is minimized
when is equal to the median of .
Hint: Write
Now break up the integral into the regions where
and where , and differentiate.
We say that is stochastically larger than , written , if, for all ,
Show that if then when
(a) and are nonnegative random variables;
(b) and are arbitrary random variables. Hint:
Write as
where
Similarly, represent as . Then make use of part (a).
A prisoner is trapped in a cell containingdoors. The first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after days’ travel. The second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after days’ travel. The third door leads to freedom after day of travel. If it is assumed that the prisoner will always select doors and with respective probabilities and ., what is the expected number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom?
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Hint: Expand in a Taylor series about . Use the first
three terms and ignore the remainder.
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