Let X 1 , X 2 be a random variables with geometric distribution with p,Find...
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2022-07-20
Let be a random variables with geometric distribution with p, Find the probability function of the random variable
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slapadabassyc
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2022-07-21Added 21 answers
Step 1 The post contains some elements of a correct approach. We cannot solve the problem without making some assumptions about the relationship between and . We will assume that and are independent. Let . We want to find . This is 0 if . So let . Step 2 We can have in several ways. For we could have and . Or we could have and . And so on up to and . For any k from 1 to , we have . Adding up from to we find that