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3.3 A coin is tossed ten times. Find(a) The probability of obtaining 5 heads up and 5 tails up;(b) The probability of having the first 5 tosses show heads up, and the final 5 tosses show tails up;(c)
3.4 In a given course, it is known that 7:3% of students fail.(a) What is the expected number of failures in a class of 32 students?(b) What is the probability that 5 or more students fail?
3.5 The frequency of twins in European population is about 12 in every 1000 maternities. Calculate the probability that there are no twins in 200 births, using(a) the binomial distribution, and (b)
3.6 Given the distribution of a Poisson variable N, P.n/ Dn nŠeshow that the mean is given by and that the variance is also given by .
3.7 Consider Mendel’s experiment of Table 1.1 at page 9 and refer to the “Long vs.short stem” data.(a) Determine the parent distribution for the number of dominants.(b) Calculate the
3.8 For Mendel’s experimental data in Table 1.1 at page 9, consider the overall fraction of plants that display the dominant character, for all seven experiments combined.(a) Determine the parent
4.1 Consider the data from Thomson’s experiment of Tube 1, from page 23.(a) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the measurements of v.(b) Use the results from Problem 2.3, in which the
4.2 Calculate the mean, variance, and moment generating function M.t/ for a uniform random variable in the range 0–1.
4.3 Consider two uniform independent random variables X, Y in the range 1 to 1.(a) Determine the distribution function, mean and variance, and the moment generating function of the variables.(b) We
4.4 Using a computer language of your choice, simulate the sum of N D 100 uniform variables in the range 0–1, and show that the sampling distribution of the sum of the variables is approximately
4.5 Consider the J.J. Thomson experiment of page 23.(a) Calculate the sample mean and the standard deviation of m=e for Tube 1.(b) Calculate the approximate mean and standard deviation of m=e from
4.6 Use the data provided in Example 4.11. Calculate the probability of a positive detection of source counts S in the first time period (where there are N1 D 50 total counts and B D 20 background
4.7 Consider the data in the Thomson experiment for Tube 1 and the fact that the variables W=Q and I are related to the variable v via the relationship v D 2W QI:Calculate the sample mean and
4.8 Provide a general expression for the error propagation formula when three independent random variables are present, to generalize (4.24) that is valid for two variables.
5.1 Using the definition of weighted sample mean as in (5.8), derive its variance and show that it is given by (5.9).
5.2 Using the data from Mendel’s experiment (Table 1.1), calculate the standard deviation in the measurement of each of the seven fractions of dominants, and the weighted mean and standard
5.3 The Mendel experiment of Table 1.1 can be described as n number n of measurements of ni, the number of plants that display the dominant character, out of a total of Ni plants. The experiment is
5.4 Consider a decaying radioactive source observed in a time interval of duration T D 15 s; N is the number of total counts, and B is the number of background counts(assumed to be measured
5.5 For the Thomson experiment of Table 2.1 (tube 1) and Table 2.2 (tube 2), calculate:(a) The 90% central confidence intervals for the variable v;(b) The 90% upper and lower limits, assuming that
5.6 Consider a Poisson variable X of mean .(a) We want to set 90% confidence upper limits to the value of the parent mean, assuming that one measurement of the variable yielded the result of N D
5.7 The data provided in Table 2.3 from Pearson’s experiment on biometric data describes the cumulative distribution function of heights from a sample of 1,079 couples. Calculate the 2 upper limit
5.8 Use the data presented in Example 5.7, in which there is a non-detection of a source in the presence of a background of B ' 9:8. Determine the Poisson upper limit to the source count at the 99%
6.1 Calculate the linear average and the weighted mean of the quantity “Ratio” in Table 6.1.
6.2 Consider the 25 measurements of “Ratio” in Table 6.1. Assume that an additional uncertainty of ˙0.1 is to be added linearly to the statistical error of each measurement reported in the
6.3 Given two measurements x1 and x2 with values in the neighborhood of 1.0, show that the logarithm of the average of the measurements is approximately equal to the average of the logarithms of the
6.4 Given two measurements x1 and x2 with values in the neighborhood of a positive number A, show that the logarithm of the average of the measurements is approximately equal to the average of the
6.5 For the data in Table 6.1, calculate the linear average, weighted average and median of each quantity (Radius, Energy Method 1, Energy Method 2 and Ratio). You may assume that the error of each
6.6 Table 6.1 contains the measurement of the thermal energy of certain sources using two independent methods labeled as method #1 and method #2. For each source, the measurement is made at a given
7.1 Five students score 70, 75, 65, 70, and 65 on a test. Determine whether the scores are compatible with the following hypotheses:(a) The mean is D 75;(b) the mean is D 75 and the standard
7.2 Prove that themean and variance of the F distribution are given by the following relationships, 8ˆˆ
7.3 Using the same data as Problem (7.1), test whether the sample variance is consistent with a parent variance of 2 D 25, at the 95% level.
7.4 Using the J.J. Thomson experiment data of page 23, measure the ratio of the sample variances of the m=e measurements in Air for Tube 1 and Tube 2.Determine if the null hypothesis that the two
7.5 Consider a dataset .10; 12; 15; 11; 13; 16; 12; 10; 18; 13/, and calculate the ratio of the sample variance of the first two measurements with that of the last eight. In particular, determine at
7.6 Six measurements of the length of a wooden block gave the following measurements: 20.3, 20.4, 19.8, 20.4, 19.9, and 20.7 cm.(a) Estimate the mean and the standard error of the length of the
7.7 Consider Mendel’s experimental data in Table 1.1 shown at page 9.(a) Consider the data that pertain to the case of “Long vs. short stem.” Write an expression for the probability of making
7.8 Consider Mendel’s experimental data in Table 1.1 shown at page 9. Considering all seven measurements, calculate the probability that the mean fraction of dominant characters agrees with the
7.9 Starting with (7.36), complete the derivation of (7.34).
7.10 Show that the t distribution, fT .t/ D 1pf .. f C 1/=2/ .f =2/1 C t2 f1 2. fC1/becomes a standard Gaussian in the limit of large f . You can make use of the asymptotic expansion of the
8.1 Consider the data from Hubble’s experiment in Table 8.1.(a) Determine the best-fit values of the fit to a linear model for .m; log v/ assuming that the dependent variables have a common value
8.2 Consider the following two-dimensional data, in which X is the independent variable, and Y is the dependent variable assumed to be derived from a photoncounting experiment:xi yi 0:0 25 1:0 36 2:0
8.3 Consider the following Gaussian dataset in which the dependent variables are assumed to have the same unknown standard deviation , xi yi 0:0 0:0 1:0 1:5 2:0 1:5 3:0 2:5 4:0 4:5 5:0 5:0 The data
8.4 In the case of a maximum likelihood fit to a 2-dimensional dataset with equal errors in the dependent variable, show that the conditions for having best-fit parameters a D 0 and b D 1 are 8ˆˆˆ
8.5 Show that the best-fit parameter b of a linear fit to a Gaussian dataset is insensitive to a change of all datapoints by the same amount x, or by the same amount y. You can show that this
8.6 The background rate in a measuring apparatus is assumed to be constant with time. N measurements of the background are taken, of which N=2 result in a value of yC, and N=2 in a value y.
8.7 Find an analytic solution for the best-fit parameters of a linear model to the following Poisson dataset:x y2 11 0 0 1 1 0 2 2
8.8 Use the data provided in Table 6.1 to calculate the best-fit parameters a and b for the fit to the radius vs. pressure ratio data, and the minimum 2. For the fit, you can assume that the radius
8.9 Show that, when all measurement errors are identical, the least squares estimators of the linear parameters a and b are given by b D Cov.X; Y/=Var.X/and a D E.Y/ bE.X/.
9.1 Calculate the best-fit parameters and uncertainties for the multi-variable regression of the Iris setosa data of Fig. 9.1.
9.2 Use an F test to determine whether the multi-variable regression of the Iris setosa data is justified or not.
9.3 Prove that (9.5) and (9.10) are equivalent. Take into consideration that in (9.5)the vectors a and ˇ are row vectors. You may re-write (9.5) using column vectors.
9.4 Prove that the coefficient of determination R2 for the simple linear regression y D a C bx is equivalent to the sample correlation coefficient of (2.20).
9.5 Fit the Iris setosa data using the function y D a C bx, where Y is the Sepal Length and X the Sepal Width. For this fit, you will ignore the data associated with the petal. Determine the best-fit
9.6 Using the results of Problem 9.5, determine whether there is sufficient evidence for the use of the simple y D a C bx model for the data. Use a confidence level of 99% to draw your conclusions.
9.7 Prove (9.17).
10.1 Use the same data as in Problem 8.2 to answer the following questions.(a) Plot the 2-dimensional confidence contours at 68 and 90% significance, by sampling the (a,b) parameter space in a
10.2 Find the minimum 2 of the linear fit to the radius vs. ratio data of Table 6.1 and the number of degrees of freedom of the fit. Determine if the null hypothesis can be rejected at the 99%
10.3 Consider a simple dataset with the following measurements, assumed to be derived from a counting process. Show that the best-fit value of the parameter a for x y 0 1 1 1 2 1 the model y D eax is
10.4 Consider the same dataset as in Problem 10.3 but assume that the y measurements are Gaussian, with variances equal to the measurements. Show that the confidence interval of the best-fit
10.5 Consider the same dataset as in Problem 10.3 but assume a constant fit function, y Da. Show that the best-fit is given by a D 1 and that the 68%confidence interval corresponds to a standard
10.6 Consider the biometric data in Pearson’s experiment (page 30). Calculate the average father height (X variable) for each value of the mother’s height (Y variable), and the average mother
10.7 Calculate the linear correlation coefficient for the data of Hubble’s experiment(logarithm of velocity, and magnitude m), page 157. Determine whether the hypothesis of uncorrelation between
10.8 Use the data from Table 6.1 for the radius vs. ratio, assuming that the radius is the independent variable with no error. Draw the 68 and 90% confidence contours on the two fit parameters a
11.1 Fit the data from Table 6.1 for the radius vs. ratio using a linear model and calculate the intrinsic scatter using the best-fit linear model.
11.2 Using the same data as in Problem 11.1, provide an additional estimate of the intrinsic scatter using the 2 red ' 1 method.
11.3 Justify the 1=.N m/ and 1=.N 1/ coefficients in (11.3) and (11.4).
11.4 Using the data for the Hubble measurements of page 157, assume that each measurement of log v has an uncertainty of D 0:01. Estimate the intrinsic scatter in the linear regression of log v vs.
11.5 Using the data of Problem 8.2, estimate the intrinsic scatter in the linear fit of the X; Y data.
12.1 Use the bivariate error data of Energy 1 and Energy 2 from Table 6.1. Calculate the best-fit parameters and errors of the linear model Y=X, where X is Energy 1 and Y is Energy 2.
12.2 Use the bivariate error data of Energy 1 and Energy 2 from Table 6.1. Calculate the best-fit parameters and errors of the linear model X=Y, where X is Energy 1 and Y is Energy 2.
12.3 For the Energy 1 and Energy 2 data of Table 6.1, use the results of Problems 12.1 and 12.2 to calculate the bisector model to the Energy 1 vs. Energy 2 data.
12.4 Repeat Problem 12.1 for the Ratio vs. Radius data of Table 6.1.
12.5 Repeat Problem 12.2 for the Ratio vs. Radius data of Table 6.1.
12.6 Repeat Problem 12.3 for the Ratio vs. Radius data of Table 6.1.
13.1 Using the data from Thomson’s experiment at page 23, determine the values of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic DN for the measurement of Tube #1 and Tube#2, when compared with a Gaussian
13.2 Using the data from Thomson’s experiment at page 23, determine the values of the two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic DNM for comparison between the twomeasurements.Determine at what
13.3 Using the data of Table 10.1, determine whether the hypothesis that the last three measurements are described by a simple constant model can be rejected at the 99% confidence level.
13.4 A given dataset with N D 5 points is fit to a linear model, for a fit statistic of2 min. When adding an additional nested parameter to the fit, p D 1, determine by how much should the 2 min be
13.5 A dataset is fit to model 1, with minimum 2 fit statistic of 2 1 D 10 for 5 degrees of freedom; the same dataset is also fit to another model, with 2 2 D 5 for 4 degrees of freedom. Determine
13.6 A dataset of size N is successfully fit with a model, to give a fit statistic 2 min. A model with a nested component with 1 additional independent parameter for a total of m parameters is then
14.1 Calculate how many synthetic bootstrap datasets can be generated at random from a dataset Z with N unique datapoints. Notice that the order in which the datapoints appear in the dataset is
14.2 For a bootstrap dataset Zj constructed from a set Z of N independent measurements of a variable X, show that the covariance between the number of occurrence nji and njk is given by (14.17),2 ik
14.3 Perform a numerical simulation of the number , and determine how many samples are sufficient to achieve a precision of 0.1%. The first six significant digits of the number are D 3:14159.
14.4 Perform a bootstrap simulation on the Hubble data presented in Fig. 14.3, and find the 68% central confidence ranges on the parameters a and b.
14.5 Using the data of Problem 8.2, run a bootstrap simulation with N D 1000 iterations for the fit to a linear model. After completion of the simulation, plot the sample probability distribution
14.6 Use the data of Problem 8.2, but assuming that the errors in the dependent variable y are unknown. Run a bootstrap simulation with N D 1000 iterations, and determine the median and 68%
14.7 Using the data of Problem 8.2, assuming that the errors in the dependent variable y are unknown, estimate the values of a and b to the fit to a linear model using a jackknife method.
14.8 Given two uniform random variables U1 and U2 between R and CR, as often available in common programming software, provide an analytic expression to simulate a Gaussian variable of mean and
15.1 Consider theMarkov chain for the Ehrenfest chain described in Example 15.4.Show that the stationary distribution is the binomial with p D q D 1=2.
15.2 Show that the random walk with p D q D 1=2 (15.10) returns to the origin infinitely often, and therefore the origin is a recurrent state of the chain.
15.3 For the random walk with p ¤ p, show that the origin is a transient state.
15.4 Assume that the diffusion model of Example 15.2 is modified in such a way that at each time step one has the option to choose one box at random from which to replace a ball to the other box.(a)
15.5 Using the model of diffusion of Problem 15.4, determine if the binomial distribution with p D q D 1=2 is the stationary distribution.
16.1 Prove that, in the presence of positive correlation among MCMC samples, the variance of the sample mean is larger than that of an independent chain.
16.2 Using the data of logm and velocity from Table 8.1 of Hubble’s experiment, construct a Monte Carlo Markov chain for the fit to a linear model with 10,000 iterations. Use uniform distributions
16.3 A one-parameter chain is constructed such that in two intervals A and B the following values are accepted into the chain:A W 10; 11; 13; 11; 10 B W 7; 8; 1; 11; 10; 8I where A is an initial
16.4 Using the data of Table 10.1, construct a Monte Carlo Markov chain for the parameters of the linear model, with 10,000 iterations. Use uniform distributions for the prior and proposal
16.5 Consider the following portions of two one-parameter chains, run in parallel and starting from different initial positions:7; 8; 1; 11; 10; 8 11; 11; 8; 10; 9; 12:Using two segments of length b
16.6 Consider the step-function model described in Example 16.2, and a dataset consisting of n measurements. Assuming that the priors on the parameters , and m are uniform, show that the full
16.7 Consider the step-function model described in Example 16.2, and a dataset consisting of the following five measurements:0; 1; 3; 4; 2:Start a Metropolis–Hastings MCMC at D 0, D 2 and m D
16.8 Consider a Monte Carlo Markov chain constructed with a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, using uniform prior and proposal distribution. At a given iteration, the chain is at the point of maximum
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