Solutions to More Practice with Joint Distributions

Submitted by Amy S. Wagaman on Wednesday, 11/3/2010, at 4:22 PM
For 1.d. I did the complement of what I asked, so the answer is 1-.25=.75, and the shaded area is opposite what it should be.

Notes on the Continuity Correction / Normal Approximation to Binomial Distribution

Submitted by Amy S. Wagaman on Monday, 10/25/2010, at 1:05 PM

MGFs are Unique

Submitted by Amy S. Wagaman on Friday, 10/15/2010, at 2:09 PM
More discussion on mgfs, and outline of a proof that mgfs are unique in the discrete case. Billingsley text. Notation is different from ours.

No Probability at a Point

Submitted by Amy S. Wagaman on Friday, 10/15/2010, at 2:08 PM
Discussion of what it means for continuous distributions to have no probability at a point. See note on this page. DeGroot and Schervish text.