Questions tagged [random-variables]

Questions about maps from a probability space to a measure space which are measurable.

A random variable $X: \Omega \to E$ is a measurable function from a set of possible outcomes $\Omega$ to a measurable space $E$. The technical axiomatic definition requires $\Omega$ to be a sample space of a probability triple. Usually $X$ is real-valued.

The probability that $X$ takes on a value in a measurable set $S \subseteq E$ is written as :

$$P(X \in S) = P(\{ \omega \in \Omega|X(\omega) \in S\})$$

where $P$ is the probability measure equipped with $\Omega$.

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Random variable with zero variance: anything else than a Dirac delta?

I've got almost not background in measure theory and just scratched the surface of distribution theory, but I've been manipulating quite a lot of stats and probabilities recently until this question popped in my mind: is there any real variable with…
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Binomial random variable with parameters.

Let $\text X$ be a binomial random variable with paramets $n$ and $p$. Show that $$E\left(\dfrac{1}{1+\text X}\right)=\dfrac{1-(1-p)^{n+1}}{(n+1)p}.$$ Would anyone mind telling me how to solve this question?
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Generating $U[0,1]$ from 3 $U[a,b]$ of unknown $a$ and $b$

I received this interesting question from my friend. Suppose we have 3 random number generators, each generates value from the uniform distribution on the interval $[a, b]$. Can we construct random number generator that generate uniform distribution…
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Second Moment of Point on Circumference of Complex Unit Circle

I have a complex random variable $X$ that is drawn uniformly from the circumference of a unit circle. What is $E[X^2]$? I'm unsure how to proceed with this question. $X$ is of the form $a + bi$, thus $X^2 = a^2 -b^2 - 2abi$, and $E[a^2 -b^2 - 2abi]…
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Random Variables: $2X$ vs $X + X$

Given some random variable $X$, how should I interpret addition: $X+X$? Two independent potentially different results added together? Or on the other hand, one result doubled $X+X= 2X$. Similarly, is $X-X$ equal to $0$? References: Is the sum of…
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Combining 2 time dependent random variables

I have a set of random variables denoted by $a_t, b_t, c_t, d_t$ with standard deviation as ${\sigma}_{t, a_t}, {\sigma}_{t, b_t}, {\sigma}_{t, c_t}, {\sigma}_{t, d_t}$, and mean as ${\mu}_{t, a_t}, {\mu}_{t, b_t}, {\mu}_{t, c_t}, {\mu}_{t, d_t}$.…
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Marginal Analysis on a random variable

Suppose we have a continuous random variable $X$. We have a function of this $X$ given as follows: $f(X)=K_1 X - K_3 X^2$ where $K_1$, $K_3$ are constants. We also have a small, positive constant $k$. Does it make sense to do a marginal analysis on…
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Convergence Rate of L^2 random variables

I'm was asking myself the following question. Consider a real-valued random variable $X \in L^2$, i.e. $\mathbb{E}[X^2] < \infty$. Clearly, $\mathbb{E}[X^2 \mathbb{1}_{\vert X \vert > n}] \to 0$ for $n \to \infty$ or in other words $\mathbb{E}[X^2…
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Almost sure convergence of uniform random variable

Let $(X_n : n ≥ 1)$ be the sequence of random variables on the standard unit-interval probability space, as shown below. I am trying to determine whether this sequence converges almost surely. My reasoning is as follows: for a fixed $\omega$, the…
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For two random variables $X$ and $Y$, how can we show $max(X,Y)$ mathematically?

Let us say we have $X$ and $Y$ two independent random variables. How can we show $Z = min(X, Y)$ or $Z=max(X, Y)$ mathematically to find the mean and pdf of $Z$?
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$X$ discrete random variable with values in $\mathbb{N}$. Show: $\mathbb{E}[X] = \sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}\mathbb{P}[X \geq n]$.

To show: $X$ discrete random variable with values in $\mathbb{N}$. Show: $\mathbb{E}[X] = \sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}\mathbb{P}[X \geq n]$. My attempt: Since $X$ is a discrete-integer-valued random variable, we have that: $\mathbb{E}[X] =…
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Distinguish between discrete and continuous random variables

My textbook has these following examples of random variables, and I have marked them as discrete and continuous like below. Can someone confirm/contradict with reason, if my understanding is correct? "In an experiment involving the transmission of a…
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Transformations of random variable: How does $|g’(g^{-1}(y))|$ become $1 \over |{dy \over dx}| $?

In transformation of random variable: $dy \over dx$ = $g’(x)$. Why? In a homework I found in an older website of my university, I see that they mention that: For r.v. $Y=g(X)$: $f_Y(y)={\Sigma f_X(g^{-1}(y)) \over |g’(g^{-1}(y))|}$ Now on this…
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What is the formal reason why adding IID random variables can't be represented as $n*X_i$?

Consider IID $X_1, \ldots, X_n$. Consider $Y = X_1 + \ldots + X_n$ What is the formal reason why $Y \neq nX_i$? I tried to explain this to a younger student by saying something like "they're random variables, so you can't add them in that way…
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characteristic function when adding Gaussian RV.s

$X_i$ and $Y$ are random variables: $$X_i \sim \text{Gaussian}(\mu_i,~ \sigma^2_i)$$ $$Y = a_1 X_1 + a_2 X_2 + \cdots + a_n X_n$$ They say to find the Characteristic equation of Y, so: $$\Psi(\omega) = E[e^{j\omega Y}]$$ $$\Psi(\omega) =…
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