Introduction to Probability
3b. Joint distributions
3. Random variables
Marginal distributions.
[Si] "Distributions" : Sect 4 "Joint distributions" :Item
"Joint and marginal densities"
.
[BT] Sect 2.5 "Joint PMFs of multiple random variables" : pp. 93.
Conditional distributions.
[Si] "Distributions" : Sect 5
"Conditional distributions"
.
[BT] Sect 2.6 "Conditioning" : Item "Conditioning one random variable on another" (p. 100-)
The trinomial distribution.
[Si] "Bernoulli trials" : Sect 5
"The multinomial distribution"
.
Convolution.
[Si] "Distributions" : Sect 7
"Transformations of variables"
: Item "Sums and Convolution" (find it after Exercise 8).
[BT] Sect 4.2 "Sums of independent random variables - Convolutions" : Item "The discrete case" (p. 221-).
[GS]
: Sect 7.1 "Sums of discrete random variables" : Item "Convolutions".
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