Module: Continuous Random Variables: Exponential

Continuous random variables, pdfs, distribution functions, expectation and variance. Exponential random variables, used most famously in radiocarbon dating. Pic: Glencoe boabab, dated by radiocarbon dating to be \(\approx\) 2000 years old.

Dates: Mon, Oct 23 - Tue, Oct 31

Learning Outcomes

Continuous RV

Review the notion of pdfs
Assign probabilities to events formed by continuous random variables
Cummulative Distribution functions
Derive pdf transforms for functions of random variables
Expectation and expectation of functions of random variables, Variance *

Readings

Continuous RV

Chapter 3.1 and 3.2

Experiential Learning

Problems in Class

Continuous RV: exponentials

31 Oct 12:00 AM