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A friend tossed two fair coins, You asked "Did a coin land heads?" Your friends answers "yes." What is the probability that both coins landed heads? Justify your answer. | A friend tossed two fair coins, You asked "Did a coin land heads?" Your friends answers "yes." What is the probability that both coins landed heads? Justify your answer. | ||
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'''Part 2.''' | '''Part 2.''' | ||
| − | A point <math>\omega</math> is picked at random in the triangle shown | + | A point <math>\omega</math> is picked at random in the triangle shown below (all points are equally likely.) let the random variable <math>X(\omega)</math> be the perpendicular distance from <math>\omega</math> to be base as shown in the diagram. <br> |
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'''(a)''' Find the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of <math>\mathbf{X}</math>.<br> | '''(a)''' Find the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of <math>\mathbf{X}</math>.<br> | ||
'''(b)''' Find the probability distribution function (pdf) of <math>\mathbf{X}</math>.<br> | '''(b)''' Find the probability distribution function (pdf) of <math>\mathbf{X}</math>.<br> | ||
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'''(d)''' What is the probability that <math>\mathbf{X}>h/3</math>.<br> | '''(d)''' What is the probability that <math>\mathbf{X}>h/3</math>.<br> | ||
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'''(b)''' Show that the conditional probability mass function (pmf) of <math>X</math> conditioned on the event <math>{Z=n}</math> is binomially distributed, and determine the parameters of the binomial distribution (recall that there are two parameters <math>"n"</math> and <math>"p"</math>) required to specify a binomial distribution <math>b(n,p)</math>).<br> | '''(b)''' Show that the conditional probability mass function (pmf) of <math>X</math> conditioned on the event <math>{Z=n}</math> is binomially distributed, and determine the parameters of the binomial distribution (recall that there are two parameters <math>"n"</math> and <math>"p"</math>) required to specify a binomial distribution <math>b(n,p)</math>).<br> | ||
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| − | + | Let <math>X(t)</math> be a wide-sense stationary Gaussian random process with mean <math>\mu_x</math> and autocorrelation function <math>R_xx(\tau)</math>. Let <br> | |
| − | :'''Click [[ | + | <math>Y(t)=c_1X(t)-c_2X(t-T)</math>,<br> |
| + | where <math>c_1,c_2</math> and <math>T</math> are real numbers. What is the probability that <math>Y(t)</math> is less than or equal to a real number <math>/\gamma?</math> Express your answer in terms of <math>c_1,c_2,\mu_x,\sigma_x^2</math>, and <math>R_xx(\tau), \gamma</math> and the "phi function"<br> | ||
| + | <math>\Phi(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{x} \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-z^{2}/2} dz</math><br> | ||
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Communication, Networking, Signal and Image Processing (CS)
Question 1: Probability and Random Processes
August 2016
Question
Part 1.
A friend tossed two fair coins, You asked "Did a coin land heads?" Your friends answers "yes." What is the probability that both coins landed heads? Justify your answer.
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Part 2.
A point $ \omega $ is picked at random in the triangle shown below (all points are equally likely.) let the random variable $ X(\omega) $ be the perpendicular distance from $ \omega $ to be base as shown in the diagram.
(a) Find the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of $ \mathbf{X} $.
(b) Find the probability distribution function (pdf) of $ \mathbf{X} $.
(c) Find the mean of $ \mathbf{X} $.
(d) What is the probability that $ \mathbf{X}>h/3 $.
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Part 3.
Let $ X $ and $ Y $ be independent, jointly-distributed Poisson random variables with means with mean $ \lambda $ and $ \mu $. Let $ Z $ be a new random variable defined as
$ Z=X+Y $
(a) Find the probability mass function (pmf) of $ \mathbf{Z} $.
(b) Show that the conditional probability mass function (pmf) of $ X $ conditioned on the event $ {Z=n} $ is binomially distributed, and determine the parameters of the binomial distribution (recall that there are two parameters $ "n" $ and $ "p" $) required to specify a binomial distribution $ b(n,p) $).
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Part 4.
Let $ X(t) $ be a wide-sense stationary Gaussian random process with mean $ \mu_x $ and autocorrelation function $ R_xx(\tau) $. Let
$ Y(t)=c_1X(t)-c_2X(t-T) $,
where $ c_1,c_2 $ and $ T $ are real numbers. What is the probability that $ Y(t) $ is less than or equal to a real number $ /\gamma? $ Express your answer in terms of $ c_1,c_2,\mu_x,\sigma_x^2 $, and $ R_xx(\tau), \gamma $ and the "phi function"
$ \Phi(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{x} \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-z^{2}/2} dz $
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