Timeline for Density of min(X,Y), max(X,Y) for iid Uniform (Related to other post)
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| Apr 22 at 18:23 | comment | added | whuber♦ | I, too, advocate drawing pictures: but they help most when they are clear and accurate. Could you therefore explain how the two patches of color represent the random variables $Z$ and $W$? Neither of them appears closely related to the minimum and maximum of $X$ and $Y.$ Consider instead diagramming typical distribution-determining events of the form $Z\le z$ or $W\le w.$ | |
| Apr 22 at 17:24 | history | answered | AdamO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |