Chapter 8: Q. 8.7 (page 392)
Suppose that a fair die is rolled times. Let be the value obtained on the th roll. Compute an approximation for.
Short Answer
where and.
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Chapter 8: Q. 8.7 (page 392)
Suppose that a fair die is rolled times. Let be the value obtained on the th roll. Compute an approximation for.
where and.
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A person has 100 light bulbs whose lifetimes are independent exponentials with mean 5 hours. If the bulbs are used one at a time, with a failed bulb being replaced immediately by a new one, approximate the probability that there is still a working bulb after 525 hours.
Let be a continuous function defined for. Consider the functions
(called Bernstein polynomials) and prove that
.
Hint: Let be independent Bernoulli random variables with mean. Show that
and then use Theoretical Exercise.
Since it can be shown that the convergence of to is uniform, the preceding reasoning provides a probabilistic proof of the famous Weierstrass theorem of analysis, which states that any continuous function on a closed interval can be approximated arbitrarily closely by a polynomial.
It is a gamma random variable with parameters, approximately how large must be so that
If
give an upper bound to
(a)
(b)
(c);
Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with distribution, having a finite mean and variance. Whereas the central limit theorem states that the distribution ofapproaches a normal distribution as goes to infinity, it gives us no information about how largeneed to be before the normal becomes a good approximation. Whereas in most applications, the approximation yields good results whenever, and oftentimes for much smaller values of, how large a value of is needed depends on the distribution of. Give an example of distribution such that the distributionis not close to a normal distribution.
Hint: Think Poisson.
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