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Their absences are independent. On a given day, what is the probability that a at least one of them is in class? What is the probability that the forecast on a day selected at random is correct? If three of these companies are chosen at random without replacement, what is the probability that each of the three has installed WLANs? If factory A produces , cars per year and factory B produces 50, cars per year, compute the following: a The probability of purchasing a defective car from the manufacturer b If a car purchased from the manufacturer is defective, what is the probability that it came from factory A?

What is the probability that the sum is at least 9? Compute the following probabilities: a Both a man and his wife vote. The symbols transmitted are 0 and 1.

However, three possible symbols can be received: 0, 1, and E. The transition or conditional probabilities are defined by pY X , which is the probability that Y is received, given that X was transmitted. What is the probability that the student is a woman? Dana does not like Joe and so will tell the truth if Joe is guilty, but will lie with probability 0. What is the probability that Chris and Dana give conflicting testimonies? What is the probability that Joe is guilty, given that Chris and Dana give conflicting testimonies?

The probability that a brand A car needs a major repair during the first year of purchase is 0. What is the probability that a randomly selected car in the city needs a major repair during its first year of purchase?

If a car in the city needs a major repair during its first year of purchase, what is the probability that it is a brand A car? Show that these events are pairwise independent but the three are not independent. The first trial has outcome A or B, and the second trial has outcome C or D. Under what conditions will A and B be independent? In how many different ways can they be seated? In how many ways can they be seated if each couple is to sit together with the husband to the left of his wife?

In how many ways can they be seated if each couple is to sit together? In how many ways can they be seated if all the men are to sit together and all the women are to sit together? Find the number of ways in which this can be done if a. If there are seven possible representatives from labor, four from management, and five from the public, how many different committees can be formed?

A committee of four delegates, selected by lot, is formed. Determine the probability that a Department A is not represented on the committee. If the number inside each box indicates the probability that the component will independently fail within the next two years, find the probability that the system fails within two years.

Switches S1 and S2 are in series, and the pair is in parallel with a parallel arrangement of switches S3 Figure 1.

Their reliability functions are R1 t , R2 t , R3 t , and R4 t , respectively. The structure interconnects nodes A and B. What is the reliability function of the composite system in terms of R1 t , R2 t , R3 t , and R4 t if the switches fail independently? The switches labeled S1 , S2 ,.

If the switches fail independently, find the reliability function of the composite system. Reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc.

Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, This page intentionally left blank 2 Random Variables 2. In this chapter we develop the idea of a function defined on the outcome of a random experiment, which is a very high-level definition of a random variable. Thus, the value of a random variable is a random phenomenon and is a numerically valued random phenomenon. Let w be a sample point in S. That is, it is a mapping of the sample space onto the real line.

Therefore, in the remainder of the book we use X to denote a random variable. The sample space S is called the domain of the random variable X. Also, the collection of all numbers that are values of X is called the range of the random variable X.

Figure 2. Example 2. Let the event Ax define the subset of S that consists of all real sample points to which the random variable X assigns the number x.

In particular, if we assume that X can only assume one of the values x1 , x2 ,. That is, if X takes on values x1 , x2 , x3 ,. For example, we may be interested in the mean grade of those students who have passed an exam or the average age of professors who have doctoral degrees.

Example 3. Recall that in Example 3. The statement says that the bound is directly proportional to the variance and inversely proportional to a2. For example, suppose we are required to use the data in Example 3. If the expected value of X is 3.

For example, in Example 3. The Chebyshev inequality tends to be more powerful than the Markov inequality, which means that it provides a more accurate bound than the Markov inequality, because in addition to the mean of a random variable, it also uses information on the variance of the random variable.

Two limit theorems associated with these measures are also considered; these are the Chebyshev inequality and the Markov inequality. Several examples are solved to demonstrate how these measures can be computed for both discrete random variables and continuous random variables. What is the expected number of claims that the company can expect from the beneficiaries of these men within one year?

If a student is randomly selected from the class, what is his expected height? There are three known states: fast, moderate, and slow. When it is in the fast state, it takes 2 minutes to perform the operation. When it is in the moderate state, it takes 4 minutes to perform the operation. When it is in the slow state, it takes 7 minutes to perform the operation. What is the expected time it takes the machine to perform the operation?

It takes him 1 hour to solve the problem using method A. It takes him 45 minutes to solve the problem using method B. It takes him 30 minutes to solve the problem using method C. What is the expected time it takes the student to solve a problem? What are the expected winnings?

The first van carried 12 students, the second van carried 15 students, and the third van carried 18 students. Upon their arriving at the competition, one student was randomly selected from the entire group to receive a gift certificate for a free lunch at a local restaurant. What is the expected number of students in the van that carried the selected student?

Let X represent the outcome of a single roll of a fair die. What is the entropy of X in bits? Section 3. Determine the mean and standard deviation of X. The above result shows that the conditional probability that the number of trials remaining until the first success, given that no success occurred in the first n trials, has the same PMF as X had originally.

This property is called the forgetfulness or memorylessness property of the geometric distribution. Example 4. Given that he has tossed 20 balls without getting a ball into the eighth box, what is the expected number of additional tosses he needs to get a ball into the eighth box? Let X be the random variable that denotes the number of tosses required to get a ball into the eighth box. Then X has a geometric distribution.

Let K denote the number of additional tosses required to get a ball into the eighth box, given that no ball is in the box after 20 tosses. Then, because of the forgetfulness property of the geometric distribution, K has the same distribution as X.

Let the kth success in a Bernoulli sequence of trials occur at the nth trial. The next trial independently results in a success with probability p. What is the probability that there are m successes before r failures? Solution This is an example of the Pascal distribution. The probability that they sell a set of cookies that is, one or more packs of cookies at any house they visit is 0. If they visited eight houses in one evening, what is the probability that they sold cookies to exactly five of these houses?

If they visited eight houses in one evening, what is the expected number of sets of cookies they sold? What is the probability that they sold their third set of cookies in the sixth house they visited? Solution Let X denote the number of sets of cookies that the troop sold. Suppose the sample of size n is drawn without replacement.

Let Kn be the random variable that denotes the number of type A objects in the sample. Specifically, since there are two types of objects, we can select from each type independently once the number of objects to be selected from each type has been specified.

There N possible samples of size n that can be drawn from the population. If the are n sample is drawn randomly, then each sample has the same probability of being selected, which accounts for the above PMF.

What is the probability that a random sample of n items from the box contains k defective items? Solution Since the sample was selected randomly, all samples of size n are equally likely. A merchant wants to buy the container without knowing the above information. However, he will randomly pick 20 items from Chapter 4 Special Probability Distributions the container and will accept the container as good if there is at most one bad item in the selected sample.

What is the probability that the merchant will declare the container to be good? Solution Let A be the event that there is no defective item in the selected sample and B be the event that there is exactly one defective item in the selected sample. Let Q denote the probability that the merchant declares the container to be good. Instead of testing the quality of the container with a sample size of 20, the merchant decides to test it with a sample size of As before, he will accept the container as good if there is at most one bad item in the selected sample.

Then event A consists of two subevents: zero defective items and 50 nondefective items. Similarly, event B consists of two subevents: 1 defective item and 49 nondefective items. With a bigger sample size, the merchant is more likely to make a better decision because there is a greater probability that more of the defective items will be included in the sample.

Note that while a bigger sample size has the tendency to reveal the fact that the container has a few bad items, it also involves more testing. Thus, to get better information, we must be prepared to do more testing, which is a basic rule in quality control. Six of these books were written by American authors and four were written by foreign authors.

If I randomly select one of these books, what is the probability that it was written by an American author? If I select five of these books at random, what is the probability that two of them were written by American authors and three of them were written by foreign authors? For example, the number of telephone calls arriving at a switchboard during various intervals of time and the number of customers arriving at a bank during various intervals of time are usually modeled by Poisson random variables.

Find the probability for each of the following events: a Exactly two messages arrive within one hour. Solution Let K be the random variable that denotes the number of messages arriving at the switchboard within a one-hour interval.

Assume that the equipment has not failed 4. We are interested in the conditional PDF of X, given that the equipment has not failed by time t. Similar to the geometric distribution, this is referred to as the forgetfulness or memorylessness property of the exponential distribution. This means that, given that the equipment has not failed by time t, the residual life of the equipment has a PDF that is identical to that of the life of the equipment before t.

Figure 4. According to the forgetfulness property of the exponential distribution, the mean time until Chris is done with the call is still 3 minutes. The random variable forgets the length of time the call had lasted before you arrived.

Thus, if intervals between events in a given process can be modeled by an exponential random variable, then the number of those events that occur during a specified time interval can be modeled by a Poisson random variable. Similarly, if the number of events that occur within a specified time interval can be modeled by a Poisson random variable, then the interval between successive events can be modeled by an exponential random variable.

While the exponential random variable describes the time between adjacent events, the Erlang random variable describes the time interval between any event and the kth following event. I arrived at the booth while Tom was using the phone, and I was told that he had already spent 2 minutes on the call before I arrived.

What is the average time I will wait until he ends his call? Assume that I am the first in line at the booth to use the phone after Tom, and by the time he finished his call more than 5 people were waiting behind me to use the phone. What is the probability that the time between the instant I start using the phone and the time the fourth person behind me starts her call is greater than 15 minutes?

Then Yk is the 4th-order Erlang random variable Y4. The plot of the PDF is shown in Figure 4. Given that the component has not failed after operating for hours, calculate the hazard function. Solution Let T denote the time until the component fails. What is the PDF of Y? The Bernoulli random variable is used to model experiments that have only two possible outcomes, which are referred to as success and failure. Assume that we perform the experiment n times and then stop.

The random variable that is used to denote the number of successes that occurred in those n Bernoulli trials is the binomial random variable. If the goal is to keep performing the experiment until a success occurs, then the random variable that denotes the number of Bernoulli trials until success occurs is called the geometric random variable.

Sometimes we are not interested in the first success but in the kth success. The random variable that denotes the number of Bernoulli trials up to and including that trial in which the kth success occurs is called the kth-order Pascal random variable.

One popular area of application of probability is quality control. Some of the items coming off a production line are good and some are bad. If we know beforehand the fraction of the items in a production batch that are good, we may want to know the probability that the sample contains a specified number of bad items.

The random variable that is used to denote this number is the hypergeometric random variable. The Poisson random variable is used to count the number of arrivals over a given interval. It is a popularly used model for such events as the number of customers arriving at a restaurant, the number of messages that arrive at the switchboard, and the number of equipment failures over a given interval. All of the above random variables are discrete random variables. Continuous random variables include the exponential random variable that is used to denote the length of time between occurrences of an event.

Associated with the exponential random variable is the Erlang-k random variable, which is used to denote the length of the interval from the beginning of the observation of the occurrence of an event until the point in time when the kth occurrence of that event takes place. Two other continuous random variables are covered in this chapter.

One is the uniformly distributed random variable, which is used to denote the time of events that are equally likely to occur at any time within a given interval. The other is the normal random variable that is used to denote events that have a high probability of occurrence around the mean value and a smaller probability of occurrence the farther away from the mean value we move. Table 4. When X is a discrete random variable, we replace the summation by integration and obtain the same result.

The random variable S can be used to model the reliability of systems with stand-by connections, as shown in Figure 6. In such systems, the component A whose time-to-failure is represented by the random variable X is the primary component, and the component B whose time-to-failure is represented by the random variable Y is the backup component that is brought into operation when the primary component fails.

Thus, S represents the time until the system fails, which is the sum of the lifetimes of both components. Figure 6. The expression on the right-hand side is a well-known result in signal analysis Figure 6.

When z 6. Solution Let X be the random variable that denotes the sum of the numbers that appear in 16 tosses of the die. The janitor picked up the caps and put them in a room. If each student later came back and picked up a cap at random, what is the expected number of students who picked up their own caps? Solution Let X be the random variable that denotes the number of students who picked their own caps.

There are N couples, and the building owner discovered that having 2N people in the hall violates the building code. To comply with the code, he must ask m people to leave. If he selects these m people in a random manner, what is the expected number of couples that would still remain in the hall? Solution Let X be the random variable that denotes the number of couples that remain in the hall after the m people have been removed.

One interesting issue is to find the probability that the life of the system exceeds a given value. For the case where only one spare part is available, we are basically dealing with the sum of two random variables. What is the PDF of U? The random variable W can be used to represent the reliability of systems with parallel connections, as shown in Chapter 6 Functions of Random Variables Figure 6. In such systems, we are interested in passing a signal between the two endpoints through either the component labeled A or the component labeled B.

Thus, as long as one or both components are operational, the system is operational. This implies that the system is declared to have failed when both paths become unavailable. That is, the reliability of the system depends on the reliability of the last component to fail. The CDF of W can be obtained by noting that if the greater of the two random variables is less than or equal to w, then the smaller random variable must also be less than or equal to w. What is the PDF of W?

Let X be the random variable that denotes the lifetime of component A, and Y be the random variable that denotes the lifetime of component B. We then compare E[U] and E[W]. That is, the standby connection has the greatest mean lifetime, followed by the parallel connection, and the serial connection has the smallest mean lifetime. This result is not surprising because the failure rate of the serial connection is the sum of the failure rates of the two components, which means that the mean lifetime of the serial connection is smaller than the mean lifetime of either component.

Similarly, the mean lifetime of the standby connection is the sum of the mean lifetimes of the individual components. Finally, the mean lifetime of the parallel connection is equal to the mean lifetime of the component that lasts the longer time, which means that it lies somewhere between those of the other two models.

Find fUW u, w. Thus, there is only one set of solutions. Example 6. The weak law describes how a sequence of probabilities converges, and the strong law describes how a sequence of random variables behaves in the limit. This validates the relative-frequency definition of probability. The central limit theorem achieves this purpose.

We are interested in determining the time until each of the n bulbs fails. Assume we order the lifetimes of these bulbs after the experiment. In particular, Yk is called the kth order statistic.

One way is to differentiate FYk y to obtain fYk y. What is the probability that the fourth largest random variable has a value between 8 and 9? The concept of sums of random variables is related to the idea of systems with standby redundancy. Other functions discussed include the minimum of two random variables, which is used to model systems connected in series; the maximum of two random variables, which is used to model systems connected in parallel; the central limit theorem; the laws of large numbers; order statistics, which is concerned with arranging a set of observation data in an increasing order; and two functions of two random variables, which are analyzed using a transformation method.

Find the PDF, expected value, and variance of Y. The mean of Y. The variance of Y. Let the random variables X and Y denote the numbers that appear on the dice. What is the expected value of X? Let the random variable X denote the number of boys selected, and let the random variable Y denote the number of girls selected. What is the expected number of empty boxes? Coin B is a fair coin. Each coin is tossed four times. Let X be the random variable that denotes the number of heads resulting from coin A, and let Y be the random variable that denotes the number of heads resulting from coin B.

Determine the following: a. If their correlation coefficient is 0. The variance of the sum of X and Y. The variance of the difference of X and Y.

Note: Give the explicit expression for fUW u, w. Section 6. The Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution c. The second largest random variable. The maximum random variable. The minimum random variable. This page intentionally left blank 7 Transform Methods 7. These include the z-transform, Laplace transform, and Fourier transform. They are sometimes called characteristic functions.

One of the reasons for their popularity is that when they are introduced into the solution of many problems, the calculations become greatly simplified. As students of signals and systems know, the Fourier transform of a convolution is the product of the individual Fourier transforms. This means that the convolution operation can be replaced by the much simpler multiplication operation. In fact, sometimes transform methods are the only tools available for solving some types of problems.

We consider three types of transforms: characteristic functions, the z-transform or moment-generating function of PMFs, and the s-transform or Laplace transform of PDFs. The z-transform and the s-transform are particularly used when random variables take only nonnegative values.

Thus, the s-transform is essentially the one-sided Laplace transform of a PDF. Examples of this class of random variables are frequently encountered in many engineering problems, such as the number of customers that arrive at the bank or the time until a component fails.

As a result, these transforms satisfy certain conditions that relate to their probabilistic origin. Example 7. This means that the integral in the above equation is 1.

These include the exponential distribution, the Erlang distribution, and the uniform distribution. Xn be independent continuous random variables. That is, fX1 X Solution First, we must realize that Y is an Erlang random variable. Let X be the underlying exponential distribution. That is, X is a third-order Erlang random variable. Let Y be the underlying exponentially distributed random variable. However, this is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a function to the z-transform of a PMF.

This feature of the z-transform is the reason it is cometimes called the probability generating function. If so, what is the PMF? What is the power spectral density of the output process? Find the power spectral density of the output process. If Y t is the output process, find the cross-power spectral density SXY w.

It is the input to a linear system with impulse response h t , and Y t is the output process. The scheme is illustrated in Figure 9. Determine the following in terms of the parameters of X t : a.

The power spectral density SZZ w c. The cross-power spectral density SXZ w 9. The equation that governs the system i. The cross-power spectral density SXY w d.

The transfer function H w of the system e. The power spectral density of Y t 9. The autocorrelation function of Z t b. The power spectral density of Z t c. The power spectral density of the output process V t. If Z t is the input to a linear system with impulse response h t , determine the following: a.

The cross-power spectral density SZX w e. The impulse response h t of the system b. The cross-power spectral density SXY w of the input process and the output process Y t c. The power spectral density SYY w of the output process Section 9. Find the transfer function of the system. Find the power spectral density of the sequence. These include the Bernoulli process, random walk, Gaussian process, Poisson process, and Markov process. In such a process we may be interested in the number of successes in a given number of trials, the number of trials until the first success, or the number trials until the kth success.

Also as stated in Chapter 4, L1 is a random variable that has no memory. Let Yn denote the number of heads in n consecutive tosses of the coin. Assume that the experiment is performed every T time units, and let the random variable Xk denote the outcome of the kth trial. If we use Xk to model a process where we take a step to the right if the outcome of the kth trial is a success and a step to the left if the outcome is a failure, then the random variable Yn represents the location of the process relative to the starting point or origin at the end of the nth trial.

If the walk is bounded, then the ends of the walk are called barriers. These barriers can impose different characteristics on the process. For example, they can be reflecting barriers, which means that on hitting them the walk turns around and continues. They can also be absorbing barriers, which means that the walk ends. Suppose a gambler plays a sequence of independent games against an opponent. Thus, the n-step probability enables us to obtain reachability information between any two states of the process.

Two states that are accessible from each other are said to communicate with each other. The concept of communication divides the state space into different classes.

Two states that communicate are said to be in the same class. All members of one class communicate with one another. If a class is not accessible from any state outside the class, we define the class to be a closed communicating class. A Markov chain in which all states communicate, which means that there is only one class, is called an irreducible Markov chain. For example, the Markov chains shown in Figures The states of a Markov chain can be classified into two broad groups: those that the process enters infinitely often and those that it enters finitely often.

In the long run, the process will be found to be in only those states that it enters infinitely often. Let fij n denote the conditional probability that given that the process is presently in state i, the first time it will enter state j occurs in exactly n transitions or steps.

We call fij n the probability of first passage from state i to state j in n transitions. It is the conditional probability that the process will ever enter state j, given that it was initially in state i. A recurrent state j is called a positive recurrent state if, starting at state j the expected time until the process returns to state j is finite.

Otherwise, the recurrent state is called a null recurrent state. Positive recurrent, aperiodic states are called ergodic states. A chain consisting of ergodic states is called an ergodic chain. Identify the transient states, the recurrent states, and the periodic states with their periods. How many chains are there in the process? Here, the transition is now from state 2 to state 4 instead of from state 4 to state 2. For this case, states 1, 2, and 3 are now transient states because when the process enters state 2 and makes a transition to state 4, it does not return to these states again.

Also, state 4 is a trapping or absorbing state because once the process enters the state, it never leaves the state. Example Figure The n-step transition probabilities can be obtained by multiplying the transition probability matrix by itself n times. Similarly, the entries of the matrix P3 are the pij 3. For this particular matrix and matrices for a large number of Markov chains, we find that as we multiply the transition probability matrix by itself many times, the entries remain constant.

More importantly, all the members of one column will tend to converge to the same value. That is, the constant is independent of the initial conditions. The following propositions specify the conditions for the existence of the limiting-state probabilities: a. However, they must be interpreted as the long-run probability that the process is in state j. Find the limiting-state probabilities.

We can proceed in two ways: the direct method or the matrix method. We consider both methods. Under this method, we exhaustively enumerate all the possible ways of a state 1 to state 2 transition in 3 steps. One of the limitations of the direct method is that it is difficult to exhaustively enumerate the different ways of going from state 1 to state 2 in n steps, especially when n is large. This is where the matrix method becomes very useful. As discussed earlier, pij n is the ijth ith row, jth column entry in the matrix Pn.

Thus, for the current problem, we are looking for the entry in the first row and second column of the matrix P3. That is, not only does each row sum to 1, each column also sums to 1. This completes the proof. Time homogeneous Markov chains have stationary or homogeneous transition probabilities. Note that the second to last equation is due to the Markov property. With these definitions we consider the state-transition diagram for the process, which is shown in Figure We consider the transition equations for state i for the small time interval t.

From Figure Consider a continuous-time Markov chain with states 0, 1, 2,. Thus, a birth and death process is a continuous-time Markov chain with states 0, 1, 2,. That is, a transition either causes an increase in state by one or a decrease in state by one. A birth is said to occur when the state increases by one, and a death is said to occur when the state decreases by one. The statetransition-rate diagram of a birth and death process is shown in Figure It is called a state-transition-rate diagram as opposed to a state-transition diagram Chapter 10 Some Models of Random Processes Figure What is the fraction of time that the machine is operational or available?

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Unlike most books on probability, numerous figures have been included to clarify and expand upon important points. Over illustrations and MATLAB plots have been designed to reinforce the material and illustrate the various characterizations and properties of random quantities.

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This book emphasizes fundamentals and a "first principles" approach to deal with this evolution. It illustrates theory with practical examples and case studies, equipping readers to deal with a wide range of problems beyond those in the book. Praise for the First Edition ". Beginning with three chapters that develop probability theory and introduce the axioms of probability, random variables, and joint distributions, the book goes on to present limit theorems and simulation.

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The book is also an ideal resource for scientists and engineers in the fields of statistics, mathematics, industrial management, and engineering. This textbook differs from others in the field in that it has been prepared very much with students and their needs in mind, having been classroom tested over many years. It presents the fundamentals of the subject along with concepts of probabilistic modelling, and the process of model selection, verification and analysis.

Furthermore, the inclusion of more than examples and exercises carefully selected from a wide range of topics , along with a solutions manual for instructors, means that this text is of real value to students and lecturers across a range of engineering disciplines. Key features: Presents the fundamentals in probability and statistics along with relevant applications. Explains the concept of probabilistic modelling and the process of model selection, verification and analysis.

Definitions and theorems are carefully stated and topics rigorously treated. Includes a chapter on regression analysis. Covers design of experiments.