PDF of Lecture Notes - School of Mathematical Sciences
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1. DISTRIBUTION THEORY<br />
that is,<br />
⎧<br />
0 x ≤ a<br />
⎪⎨<br />
x − a<br />
F (x) =<br />
b − a<br />
a < x < b<br />
⎪⎩<br />
1 b ≤ x<br />
Figure 6: Uniform distribution CDF<br />
M X (t) = etb − e ta<br />
t(b − a)<br />
A special case is the U(0, 1) distribution:<br />
⎧<br />
⎪⎨ 1 0 < x < 1<br />
f(x) =<br />
⎪⎩<br />
0 otherwise,<br />
F (x) = x for 0 < x < 1,<br />
E(X) = 1 2 , Var(X) = 1 12 , M(t) = et − 1<br />
.<br />
t<br />
1.2.2 Exponential Distribution<br />
CDF:<br />
F (x) = 1 − e −λx ,<br />
M X (t) =<br />
λ<br />
λ − t .<br />
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