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A First Course in Probability

Sheldon M. Ross

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Chapter 7: Q.7.4 (page 362)

Use the conditional variance formula to determine the variance of a geometric random variable $X$ having parameter $p$ .

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The variance of a geometric random variable $X$ having parameter $p$ is $Var (X) = \frac{1 - p}{p^{2}}$ .

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The variance of a geometric random variable $X$ having parameter $p$ .

Explanation

Suppose a sequence of independent Bernoulli random variables ${(X_{n})}_{n 鈮� 1}$ with the parameter of success $p$ . Let $X$ mark the index of first random variable which has yielded a success. We know that $Z$ has Geometric distribution with parameter $p$ . Using the formula for conditional variance, we can condition on random variable $X_{1}$ . We have that

Var (X) = E (Var (X 鈭� X_{1})) + Var (E (X 鈭� X_{1}))

$E (Var (X 鈭� X_{1})) = E (E (X^{2} 鈭� X_{1}) - E {(X 鈭� X_{1})}^{2})$

$= P (X_{1} = 0) 路 (E (X^{2} 鈭� X_{1} = 0) - E {(X 鈭� X_{1} = 0)}^{2})$ + $P (X_{1} = 1) (E (X^{2} 鈭� X_{1} = 1) - E {(X 鈭� X_{1} = 1)}^{2})$

$= (1 - p) (E (X^{2}) - E (X)^{2}) + 0$

$= (1 - p) Var (X)$

Explanation

$E (X 鈭� X_{1}) = 1 路 I_{(X_{1} = 1)} + (1 + \frac{1}{p}) I_{(X_{1} = 0)}$

Applying the variance,

$Var (E (X 鈭� X_{1})) = p (1 - p) + {(1 + \frac{1}{p})}^{2} p (1 - p) - 2 p (1 - p) (1 + \frac{1}{p})$

$Var (X) = (1 - p) Var (X) + {(\frac{1}{p})}^{2} p (1 - p)$

$Var (X) = \frac{1 - p}{p^{2}}$

Final Answer

The variance of a geometric random variable $X$ having parameter $p$ is $Var (X) = \frac{1 - p}{p^{2}}$ .

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