Suppose that a rv Y has mgf m(t)- (a) 1-bt) Differentiate this mgf twice and thereby obtain the mean and variance of Y. [5 marksj] (b) Suppose m(t) is the mgf of a rv W. Let r(t) be the natural logarithm of m(t), ie·r(t) = login(1). Find r'() and r"(t), and express r'(0) and r"(0) in terms of EW and VarW. [5 marks] Use the result in (b) to find the mean (d) Find the mean and variance of the...
4 10 pts. Let X1 X2 be a random sample from the exponential distribution with parameter θ What is the mgf of Y = X1 + X2? a) (4 pts.+) Find E(Y-E(X1 + X2] using the mgf. For 2 more points on test 2: How is Y distributed? 4 10 pts. Let X1 X2 be a random sample from the exponential distribution with parameter θ What is the mgf of Y = X1 + X2? a) (4 pts.+) Find E(Y-E(X1...
Let X1,X2,X3,X4 be observations of a random sample of n-4 from the exponential distribution having mean 5, What is the mgf of Y-X1 X2 X3 X4? 4. 5. What is the distribution of Y? What is the mgf of the sample mean X = X+X+Xa+X1 ? 6. 7. What is the distribution of the sample mean?
uppose XGamma(a, b) and Y Gamma(c,d). Let W -X +Y. (a) Find the MGF of W. b) What restrictions would need to be placed on the values of a, b, c, and d in order for W to be a Gamma Random Variable. What would the parameters be?
2. Let Z1, Z2, Zn be independent Normal(0,1) random variables (a) Find the MGF for Z for all i (b) Find the MGF for Σ_1 Z (c) If n is even, find the PDF for ΣΙ_1 z?
Suppose X Gamma (a; b) and YGamma (c; d). Let W-X+Y. (a) Find the MGF of w. (b) What restrictions would need to be placed on the values of a, b; c; and d for Ww to be a Gamma Random Variable. What would the parameters be?
8. Let X be a continuous random variable with mgf given by It< 1 M(t)E(eX) 1 - t2 (a) Determine the expected value of X and the variance of X [3] (b) Let X1, X2, ... be a sequence of iid random variables with the same distribution as X. Let Y X and consider what happens to Y, as n tends to oo. (i) Is it true that Y, converges in probability to 0? (Explain.) [2] (ii) Explain why Vn...
Problem D: Suppose X1, .,X, are independent random variables. Let Y be their sum, that is Y 1Xi Find/prove the mgf of Y and find E(Y), Var(Y), and P (8 Y 9) if a) X1,.,X4 are Poisson random variables with means 5, 1,4, and 2, respectively. b) [separately from part a)] X,., X4 are Geometric random variables with p 3/4. i=1
(1 point) If Y is binomial(n, p), find the MGF of Y. M(t) If n = 13 and p = 0.2, differentiate the MGF you found above to find the first 3 moments of Y about 0. 1st Moment: 2nd Moment: 3rd Moment: Using the moments above, calculate the variance of Y. var(Y) = (1 point) If Y is binomial(n, p), find the MGF of Y. M(t) If n = 13 and p = 0.2, differentiate the MGF you found...
The moment generating function (MGF) for a certain probability distribution is given by 2 (2 + 2) , M(t) = R. t 2 Suppose Xi, X2, are iid random variables with this distribution. Let Sn -Xi+ (a) Show that Var(X) =3/2, i = 1,2. (b) Give the MGF of Sn/v3n/2. (c) Evaluate the limit of the MGF in (b) for n → 0. The moment generating function (MGF) for a certain probability distribution is given by 2 (2 + 2)...