Questions 41–50 of 56. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

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Question 54

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Let

and

be independent geometric random variables with the same probability mass function given by

. Then the value of

correct up to three decimal places is _________.

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Question 21

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Let

be the distribution function of a random variable

. Consider the functions:

,

,

,

.
Which of the above functions are distribution functions?
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Question 22

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Let

(

) be independent and identically distributed random variables with finite variance

and let

. Then the covariance between

and

is
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Question 23

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Let

(

) be a random sample from a

population, where

. The smallest

such that the length of the shortest 95% confidence interval for

will not exceed 10 is ______.

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Question 46

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Let

be a random variable with probability mass function

for

. Then

equals ________.

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Question 47

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Let

and

be independent and identically distributed random variables with probability mass function

,

. Then

equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.

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Question 48

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Let

be a sequence of independent and identically distributed Poisson random variables with mean 4. Then

equals ________.

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Question 49

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Let

and

be independent and identically distributed exponential random variables with probability density function

Then

equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.

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Question 50

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Let

and

be any two events with

,

and

. Then

equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.

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Question 51

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Let


be a random sample from a binomial distribution with parameters

and

,

, and let

. Then a uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator for

is
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