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A probability provides a quantitative description of the likely occurrence of a particular event.
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Help me calculate how many people will come to my wedding! Can I attribute a percentage to e...
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The derivation of confidence intervals isn't straightforward given the form of the probability mass function. However, they are easy to approximate with Monte Carlo simulations. … group", ylab = "Group size")
hist(nb.guests, breaks = 21, probability = TRUE, main = "", xlab = "Guests")
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
## Theoretical mean and variance
c(sum(n * p), sum(n * p * (1-p)))
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Two easy probability tasks
To compute the requested probability, one needs to know the joint distribution of $X$ and $Y$. … In the second approach the requested probability is obtained by integrating the joint density on the domain of $X$ and $Y$ corresponding to situations where the two buddies meet. …
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Probability of x between two random variables
By the independence of $Z_1$ and $Z_2$ the joint probability is equal to the product of the marginal probabilities. … If $t = 0$, then $P(Z_1 < t < Z_2) = 0.25$ as one would expect since events $\{Z_1 < t\}$ and $\{Z_2 > t\}$ are independent and both have probability $0.5$. …
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How to calculate ${\rm Pr}(F_A|F_B)$ or ${\rm Pr}(F_A| F_B, F_C, F_D)$ in a four node network?
indicating failure, that is
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I_k =
\begin{cases}
1, & \text{if the node $k$ is a failure},\\
0, & \text{if the node $k$ is a failure}\\
\end{cases}
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and let $p_k = {\rm Pr}(I_k = 1)$ denote the probability … Compute ${\rm Pr}(I_A = 1 | I_B = 1)$ using the definition of conditional probability, $$ {\rm Pr}(I_A = 1 | I_B = 1) = \frac{{\rm Pr}(I_A = 1, I_B = 1)}{{\rm Pr}(I_B = 1)}, $$ and point 2.
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Normal curve probability mean
Since the question is flagged as self-study, I'll just provide some hints to (hopefully) help you derive the solution. I'll amend/complete my answer based on your progress.
As a starting point, you m …
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Determining the probability of $X_2 \ge X_1$ given they have different probability functions
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If the two random variables are independent, the probability is
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P(X_1 \leq X_2)
& = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^{x_2} f_{X_1}(x_1) f_{X_2}(x_2) dx_1 dx_2\\
& = \int_{ … 2$ follows a shifted exponential distribution with rate $\lambda > 0$ and location parameter $a$, that is $F_{X_2}(x) = 1 - \exp\{-\lambda(x-a)\}$ if $x > a$ and $F_{X_2}(x) = 0 $ otherwise, then the probability …
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What is the distribution of a sum of a subset of probabilities, with each probability having...
The Irwin-Hall distribution is the distribution of a random variable defined as the sum of a number of independent random variables, each having a uniform distribution.
It won't be useful here since t …
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Joint distribution of two sums of correlated variables
The distribution of the sum of independent random variables/vectors can often be obtained easily using moment generating functions (MGF).
In short, the MGF of the sum is the product of the MGFs of th …