11. Two different professors have just submitted nal exams for duplication. Let X denote the number of
Question:
11. Two different professors have just submitted nal exams for duplication. Let X denote the number of typographical errors on the rst professor s exam and Y denote the number of such errors on the second exam. Suppose X has a Poisson distribution with parameter l, Y has a Poisson distribution with parameter u, and X and Y are independent.
a. What is the joint pmf of X and Y ?
b. What is the probability that at most one error is made on both exams combined?
c. Obtain a general expression for the probability that the total number of errors in the two exams is m (where m is a nonnegative integer). [Hint: A
{(x, y): x y m} {(m, 0), (m 1, 1), . . . ,
(1, m 1), (0, m)}. Now sum the joint pmf over
(x, y) H A and use the binomial theorem, which says that for any
a, b.]
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Modern Mathematical Statistics With Applications
ISBN: 9780534404734
1st Edition
Authors: Jay L Devore