Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

Stat 776 Homework 4: Probability Distributions and Independence - Prof. Xiaomi Hu, Assignments of Data Analysis & Statistical Methods

Solutions to problem 4 of a statistics homework. The problems involve finding distributions of random variables and determining if two random variables are independent. The homework is for a statistics course, specifically stat 776.

Typology: Assignments

Pre 2010

Uploaded on 08/19/2009

koofers-user-jbh
koofers-user-jbh 🇺🇸

10 documents

1 / 1

Toggle sidebar

Related documents


Partial preview of the text

Download Stat 776 Homework 4: Probability Distributions and Independence - Prof. Xiaomi Hu and more Assignments Data Analysis & Statistical Methods in PDF only on Docsity!

Stat 776 HW

  1. X =

X 1

X 2

X 3

 ∼ N

− 1

0

 ,

1 2 − 1

0 − 1 1

(a) Find the distribution of X 3 X 3 ∼ N (1, 1)

(b) Find the distribution of

( X

1 X 2

)

( X

1 X 2

)

∼ N

(( − 1

0

)

,

( 5

))

X 1

X 2

X 3

 ∼ N

− 3

 ,

3 − 1 0

− 1 3 0

. Suppose X 1 + X 2 and ( (^) aX 1 −^ X 2 bX 2 + X 3

)

are independent. Find a and b.

(1, 1 , 0)

3 − 1 0

− 1 3 0

a 0 − 1 b 0 1

 = (0, 0)

( (^) a b

)

=

( 1

0

)