Calculate expectation of a geometric random variable
Dec 13, 2013 · A clever solution to find the expected value of a geometric r.v. is those employed in this video lecture of the MITx course "Introduction to Probability: Part 1 - The Fundamentals" …
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Oct 21, 2020 · This may seem trivial but just to confirm, as the expected value is a constant, this implies that the expectation of an expectation is just itself. It would be useful to know if this …
What is the difference between Average and Expected value?
The distinction is subtle but important: The average value is a statistical generalization of multiple occurrences of an event (such as the mean time you waited at the checkout the last 10 times …
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Feb 23, 2015 · What is the intuition behind conditional expectation in a measure-theoretic treatment of probability? 6 Reconciling measure-theoretic definition of expectation versus …
Expected value of an expected value - Mathematics Stack Exchange
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$\begingroup$ You're very welcome. And you got it! The integral over $(-\infty, \infty)$ of a pdf results in 1 (which intuitively makes perfect sense, since when you integrate a pdf over an …
Difference between logarithm of an expectation value and …
To add on Didier's answer, it is instructive to note that the inequality ${\rm E}(\ln X) \le \ln {\rm E}(X)$ can be seen as a consequence of the AM-GM inequality combined with the strong law …
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There are many definitions of the integral, including the Riemann integral, the Riemann-Stieltjes integral (which generalizes and expands upon the Riemann integral), and the Lebesgue …