Exercise 4
Exercise 4
V ( X )=E ( X 2 )−E ( X )
2
2 2 2 2
E( X )=0 · 0.25+1 ∗0.56+2 ∗0.19=1 , 32
2 2
E ( X ) =0.94 =0,8836
2
V ( X )=1.32−0.94 =0,4364
2
V ( Y ) ¿ ( y 1−E ( Y ) ) · f ( y 1 )
V ( Y )=¿
V ( Y )=0,2211
Cov( X ,Y )
Corr ( X ,Y )=
√V (X )· √ V ( Y )
0,1002
Corr ( X ,Y )= ≈ 0,322575203
√ 0,4364 · √0,2211
Corr ( X ,Y ) ≈ 0,322575203
0 , 56 · 0 ,67 ≈ 0,3752 ≠ 0 , 45
Thus, they are dependent.
X=0 X=1 X=2
Y=0 0 1 2
Y=1 1 2 3
Ex. 2 g)
Exercise 3 c)
W =10 X +5 Y +Z
Since X, Y , Z are independent and normally distributed, then we know that their sum, i.e. W is also
normally distributed. To know the distribution of W, we only need to know its mean and variance.
b)
For a p ∈ [0, 1], the p-quantile q p(X) is the number such that P (X ≤ q p (X)) = p. For instance, the
probability that X has an outcome less than 1.2816 is 90%. Similarly, there is a 1% probability of an
outcome of Y being less than or equal to 65.1048.
c)
Since the normal distribution is symmetric around its mean, then we have μ X − q p (X) = q 1− p (X ) − μ X
and similarly for Y , μY − q p (X) = q 1− p (Y ) − μY . This means that qp(·) is as far from μ· as q1−p(·) is
from μY . In particular, for the important case of the standard normal distribution X, this means that:
−qp(X) = q1−p(X).
d)
This is straight forward to verify. For instance, for p = 0.01 = 1%, we have
μY +σY · q0 , 01 ¿