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A Probability Course for the Actuaries A Preparation for Exam P/1

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4 CONTENTS<br />

17 Variance and Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

18 Binomial and Multinomial Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 146<br />

19 Poisson Random Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

20 O<strong>the</strong>r Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

20.1 Geometric Random Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

20.2 Negative Binomial Random Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 177<br />

20.3 Hypergeometric Random Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184<br />

21 Properties of <strong>the</strong> Cumulative Distribution Function . . . . . . . 190<br />

Continuous Random Variables 205<br />

22 Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205<br />

23 Expectation, Variance and Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . 217<br />

24 The Uni<strong>for</strong>m Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235<br />

25 Normal Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240<br />

26 Exponential Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255<br />

27 Gamma and Beta Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265<br />

28 The Distribution of a Function of a Random Variable . . . . . . 277<br />

Joint Distributions 285<br />

29 Jointly Distributed Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285<br />

30 Independent Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299<br />

31 Sum of Two Independent Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 310<br />

31.1 Discrete Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310<br />

31.2 Continuous Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315<br />

32 Conditional Distributions: Discrete Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324<br />

33 Conditional Distributions: Continuous Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 331<br />

34 Joint <strong>Probability</strong> Distributions of Functions of Random Variables 340<br />

Properties of Expectation 347<br />

35 Expected Value of a Function of Two Random Variables . . . . . 347<br />

36 Covariance, Variance of Sums, and Correlations . . . . . . . . . 357<br />

37 Conditional Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370<br />

38 Moment Generating Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381<br />

Limit Theorems 397<br />

39 The Law of Large Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397<br />

39.1 The Weak Law of Large Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397<br />

39.2 The Strong Law of Large Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

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