Homework 6

BSTA 550

Due: Thursday November 14, 2024 at 11pm
Modified

November 4, 2025

Directions

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Questions

  1. From last homework: The following table shows the results of a survey in which the subjects were a sample of 300 adults residing in a certain metropolitan area. Each subject was asked to indicate which of three policies they favored with respect to smoking in public places. (Table is from Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, 10th Edition, Daniel, Wayne W.; Cross, Chad L., pg. 630)

    Let \(X=\) highest education level and \(Y=\) policy favored. We can let \(X=1\) for college graduate, \(X=2\) for high-school graduate, etc., and similarly for \(Y\), or just keep the category names for the different levels of \(X\) and \(Y\)

    1. Make a table for the conditional pmf \(p_{X|Y}(x|y)\) and briefly describe in words what the values are the probability of.

    2. Make a table for the conditional pmf \(p_{Y|X}(y|x)\) and briefly describe in words what the values are the probability of.

  2. Each day, Maude has a 1% chance of losing her cell phone (her behavior on different days is independent). Each day, Maude has a 3% chance of forgetting to eat breakfast (again, her behavior on different days is independent). Her breakfast and cell phone habits are independent. Let \(X\) be the number of days until she first loses her cell phone. Let \(Y\) be the number of days until she first forgets to eat breakfast. (Here, \(X\) and \(Y\) are independent.)

    1. Find the joint probability mass function of \(X\) and \(Y\).

    2. Find the joint cdf of \(X\) and \(Y\) and briefly explain what \(F_{X,Y}(x,y)\) represents in the context of the problem.

    3. Find the conditional pmf \(p_{Y|X}(y|x)\).