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### Inverse transform sampling - CDF is not invertible

Suppose the cumulative distribution function $F$ is given but not invertible to use the inverse transform sampling technique (to compute $X=F^{-1}(Y)$). Do we have other alternative methods? I would ...
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### Show that if $X\ge 0$ , $E(X)\le \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}P(X>n)$

If $X$ is a random variable and also let $X\ge 0$. I want to show $E(X)\le \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}P(X>n)$.
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### Expectation when cumulative distribution function is given

This is from the book Fundamentals of Probability with Stochastic Processes by Saeed Ghahramani, pages 249-250 which asserts, for any random variable $X$ that is non-negative, expectation of $X$ is ...
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### Calculating life time expectancy

How to calculate life time expectancy when not all patients have died. Kaplan-Meier provides a survival curve which is similar to cumulative distribution function but not the actual expectancy. For ...
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### What should the integral of a CDF be called?

This is strictly a nomenclature question. I have no particular problem finding double integrals of the type $\int\int\text{pdf}(y) \, d y \,d x$, and I find them quite useful. Whereas we have a good ...
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### Test two groups with only sample statistics or without distributional assumptions

I have two sets of samples, A and B. I want to find whether the underlying mean (i.e. if the sample size was infinite) of A is greater than that of B, to a certain confidence (95%). There are two ...
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### Conditional Expectation via Integral over Quantile Function

Following this thread "Does a univariate random variable's mean always equal the integral of its quantile function?" I tried to do a similar thing for a conditional expectation. It seems like my ...
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