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Chapter 5: Q.5.26 (page 348)

Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises. A distribution is given as X~U(0,12).

What isa? What does it represent?

Short Answer

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The value of the a is zeroand it is the lowest value of thex.

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Given information

A distribution is given asX~U(0,12)

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Solution

For any random variable Xwhich follows uniform distribution with parameter (0,12), the value of a will be zero and it represents the lowest value of x.

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