Mathematics
GATE MA topic:quantitative-aptitude PYQs
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Questions 41–50 of 56. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
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 _________.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be the distribution function of a random variable
. Consider the functions:
,
,
,
.Which of the above functions are distribution functions?
Your answerChoose one option.
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Let
(
) be independent and identically distributed random variables with finite variance
and let
. Then the covariance between
and
isYour answerChoose one option.
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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 ______.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be a random variable with probability mass function
for
. Then
equals ________.Log in to check the answer
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Let
and
be independent and identically distributed random variables with probability mass function
,
. Then
equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.Log in to check the answer
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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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Let
and
be independent and identically distributed exponential random variables with probability density function
Then
equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.Log in to check the answer
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Let
and
be any two events with
,
and
. Then
equals (rounded to 2 decimal places) ________.Log in to check the answer
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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
isYour answerChoose one option.
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