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Stat 5101 Lecture Notes - School of Statistics

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Appendix DRelations Among BrandName DistributionsD.1 Special CasesFirst there are the special cases, which were also noted in Appendix B.Ber(p) = Bin(1,p)Geo(p) = NegBin(1,p)Exp(λ) = Gam(1,λ)chi 2 (k) = Gam ( k2 , )12The main point <strong>of</strong> this appendix are the relationships that involve moretheoretical issues.D.2 Relations Involving Bernoulli SequencesSuppose X 1 , X 2 , ... are i. i. d. Ber(p) random variables.If n is a positive integer andY = X 1 + ···+X nis the number <strong>of</strong> “successes” in the n Bernoulli trials, thenY ∼ Bin(n, p).On the other hand, if y is positive integer and N is the trial at which they-th success occurs, that is the random number N such thatX 1 + ···+X N =yX 1 +···+X k

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