Chapter 6: Q.6.51 (page 274)
Derive the distribution of the range of a sample of size from a distribution having density function
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Chapter 6: Q.6.51 (page 274)
Derive the distribution of the range of a sample of size from a distribution having density function
Distribution of the range :
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Consider a directory of classified advertisements that consists of m pages, where m is very large. Suppose that the number of advertisements per page varies and that your only method of finding out how many advertisements there are on a specified page is to count them. In addition, suppose that there are too many pages for it to be feasible to make a complete count of the total number of advertisements and that your objective is to choose a directory advertisement in such a way that each of them has an equal chance of being selected.
(a) If you randomly choose a page and then randomly choose an advertisement from that page, would that satisfy your objective? Why or why not? Let n(i) denote the number of advertisements on page i, i = 1, ... , m, and suppose that whereas these quantities are unknown, we can assume that they are all less than or equal to some specified value n. Consider the following algorithm for choosing an advertisement.
Step 1. Choose a page at random. Suppose it is page X. Determine n(X) by counting the number of advertisements on page X.
Step 2. 鈥淎ccept鈥 page X with probability n(X)/n. If page X is accepted, go to step 3. Otherwise, return to step 1.
Step 3. Randomly choose one of the advertisements on page X. Call each pass of the algorithm through step 1 an iteration. For instance, if the first randomly chosen page is rejected and the second accepted, then we would have needed 2 iterations of the algorithm to obtain an advertisement.
(b) What is the probability that a single iteration of the algorithm results in the acceptance of an advertisement on page i?
(c) What is the probability that a single iteration of the algorithm results in the acceptance of an advertisement?
(d) What is the probability that the algorithm goes through k iterations, accepting the jth advertisement on page i on the final iteration?
(e) What is the probability that the jth advertisement on page i is the advertisement obtained from the algorithm?
(f) What is the expected number of iterations taken by the algorithm?
The random variables have joint density function and equal to otherwise.
(a) Are independent?
(b) Find
(c) Find
(d) Find .
(e) Find
According to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 25.2 percent of males and 23.6 percent of females never eat breakfast. Suppose that random samples of 200 men and 200 women are chosen. Approximate the probability that
(a) at least 110 of these 400 people never eat breakfast;
(b) the number of the women who never eat breakfast is at least as large as the number of the men who never eat breakfast.
Let be independent and identically distributed random variables having distribution function F and density f. The quantity , defined to be the average of the smallest and largest values in , is called the midrange of the sequence. Show that its distribution function is uncaught exception: Http Error #500
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The accompanying dartboard is a square whose sides are of length 6.

The three circles are all centered at the center of the board and are of radii 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Darts landing within the circle of radius 1 score 30 points, those landing outside this circle, but within the circle of radius 2, are worth 20 points, and those landing outside the circle of radius 2, but within the circle of radius 3, are worth 10 points. Darts that do not land within the circle of radius 3 do not score any points. Assuming that each dart that you throw will, independently of what occurred on your previous throws, land on a point uniformly distributed in the square, find the probabilities of the accompanying events:
(a) You score 20 on a throw of the dart.
(b) You score at least 20 on a throw of the dart.
(c) You score 0 on a throw of the dart.
(d) The expected value of your score on a throw of the dart.
(e) Both of your first two throws score at least 10.
(f) Your total score after two throws is 30.
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