Prob & Random Process Q.B (IV Sem)
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PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESS
UNIT I
RANDOM VARIABLES
PART A
1. Define probability mass function.
2. If Var (X) = 4, find Var (3X+8), where X is a random variable.
3. X and Y are independent random variable with variance 2 and 3. Find the variance of 3X+4Y.
4. Let X be a random variable with E(X) = 1, and E{X(X-1)} = 4. Find Var X and Var (2-3X).
5. Define probability density function.
6. A continuous random variable X has probability density function given by Find K such that
7. A random variable X has the p.d.f f(x) given by Find the value of C and c.d.f. of X.
8. The first four moments of a distribution about X are 1,4,10 and 45 resp. Show that the mean is 5, variance is 3,
9. For a binomial distribution mean is 6 and S.D. is . Find the first two terms of the distribution.
10.Determine the binomial distribution for which the mean is 4 and the variance is 3.
11.Define poisson distribution.
12.If X is a poisson variate such that P(X = 2) = 9P(X = 4) + 90P(X = 6),find the variance.
13.The moment generating function of a random variable X is given by
Find P(X=1).
14.Find the moment generating function of the geometric distribution.
15.Define Negative Binomial distribution.
16.Find the moment generating function of a uniform distribution.
17.If the random variable X is uniformly distributed over (-1,1), find the density
function of
18.If X is uniformly distributed in , find the probability distribution
function of y = tan x.
19.Define exponential distribution.
20.Define Gamma distribution.
21.The life time of a component measured in hours is Weibull distribution with parameter Find the mean lifetime of the component.
22.Define Normal distribution.23.Let X be a random variable with p.d.f given by
Find the pdf of Y = (3X+1).
PART B
1. Let X be a discrete r.v whose cumulative distribution function is
(a)Find(b)Find the probability mass function.
2. A man draws 3 balls from an urn containing 5 white and 7 black balls. He gets Rs. 10 for each white ball and Rs.5 for each black ball. Find his expectation.
3. 6 dice are thrown 729 times. How many times do you expect atleast three dice to show 5 or 6 ?
4. Let X be a r.v with p.d.f given by find the p.d.f of Y = (3X+1)
5. A continuous random variable X has the p.d.f find the moment of X about the origin. Hence find the mean and variance of X.
6. If X has the probability density find K, and the mean of X.
7. Let the r.v X hjave the p.d.f find the moment
generating function, mean and variance of X.
8. Define Binomial distribution, obtain its MGF, mean and variance.
9. The probability of a bomb hitting a target is 1/5. Two bombs are enough to destroy a bridge. If six bombs are aimed at the bridge, find the probability that the bridge is destroyed ?
10.Describe Binomial B(n, p) distribution and obtain the moment-generating function. Hence compute (i) the first four moments and (ii) the recursion relation for the central moments.
11.State the condition under which the poisson distribution is a limiting case of the binomial distribution and show that under these conditions the binomial distribution is approximated by the poisson distribution.
12.Obtain the first four moments about origin of the poisson distribution?
13.If X and Y are independent poisson random variables, show that the conditional distribution of X given X+Y is a binomial distribution.
14.A and B shoot independently until each has hit own target. The probabilities of their hitting the target at each shot 2/5 and 5/7 resp. Find the probability that B will require more shots than A.
15.If a random variable X has a negative binomial distribution, obtain the mean and variance of X.
16.Describe negative binomial distribution X~NB (k, p) where X=number of failures preceding the success in a sequence of Bernoulli trials and p=probability of success. Obtain the MGF of X, mean and variance of X.
17.If a poisson variate X is such that P(X = 1) = 2P(X = 2). Find P(X = 0) and var (X). If X is a uniform random variable in [-2,2], find the p.d.f of
and E[Y].
18.If X is a uniform random variable in the interval (-2, 2) find the p.d.f of .
19.Find the moment generating function of the exponential distribution
Hence find its mean and S.D.
20.Find the moment generating function of an exponential random variable and hence find its mean and variance.
21.Suppose the duration X in minutes of long distance calls from your home,
follows exponential law with PDF
find mean of X and variance of X.
22.The daily consumption of milk in excess of 20,000 gallons is approximately exponentially distributed with The city has a daily stock of 35,000 gallons. What is the probability that of two days selected at random, the stock is insufficient for both days.
23.What is MGF of a random variable? Derive the M.G.F, mean, variance and the first four moments of a Gamma distribution.
24.Suppose that the lifetime of a certain kind of an emergency backup battery (in hrs) is a random variable X having the Weibull distribution
Find (a) the mean lifetime of these batteries, (b) the probability such a battery will last more than 300 hrs. (c) the probability that such a battery will not last 100 hrs.
25.Find the moment generating function of Normal distribution.
26.If X and Y are independent random variables each following N (0, 2), find the probability density function of Z = 2X + 3Y.
UNIT II
TWO DIMENSIONAL RANDOM VARIABLES
PART A
1. The joint pdf of two random variables X and Y is given by
and otherwise find
2. The joint pdf of a biliariate R.V. (X,Y) is given by, . Find P(X+Y < 1).
3. The joint pdf of the R.V. (X,Y) is given by Find
the value of K and prove also that X and Y are independent.
4. State the basic properties of joint distribution of (X,Y) when X and Y are random variables.
5. If the point pdf of (X,Y) is given by find E[XY].
6. If two random variables X and Y have probability density function Evaluate k.
7. If X and Y are random variables having the joint density function
find P(X+Y<3).
8. Give an example for conditional distribution.
9. Distinguish between correlation and regression.
10.The two equations of the variables X and Y are x = 19.13-0.87y and y = 11.64-0.50x. Find the correlation co-efficient between X and Y.
11.The regression equations of X and Y is given by 3X +Y = 10 and 3X +4Y = 12. Find the co-efficient of correlation between X and Y.
12.Find the acute angle between the two lines of regression.
13.State the equations of the two regression lines. What is the angle between them?
14.The regression equation of X on Y and Y on X are respectively 5x-y=22 and 64x-45y=24. Find the means of X and Y.
15.X and Y are independent random variables with variance 2 and 3. Find the variance of 3X + 4Y.
16.State central limit theorem.
17.State the central limit theorem for independence and identically distributed random variables.
PART B
1. The joint probability mass function of X and Y is
P(x,y) 0 1 2
X 0 0.1 .04 .02
1 .08 .02 .06
2 .06 .14 .30
Compute the marginal PMF of X and of Y, and check if X and Y are independent.
2. The joint probability mass function of (X, Y) is given by Find the marginal probability
distribution of
3. If X and Y are random variables having the joint density function
. Find (i)
(ii) (iii)
4. Find the marginal density function of X, if the joint density function of two continuous random variable X and Y is
5. If the joint pdf of two random variable (X,Y) is given by
. Find the marginal density function of X and
Y.
6. If the joint density function of the two random variables X and Y be
. Find (i) P(X<1) and (ii) P(X+Y<1).
7. Find the covariance of the two random variables whose pdf is given by
8. Calculate the correlation co-efficient for the following heights (in inches) of fathers X their sons Y.
X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71
9. Suppose that the two dimensional random variables (X,Y) has the joint
p.d.f. . Obtain the correlation co-efficient
between X and Y.
10.Two independent random variables X and Y are defined by
. Show that U=X+Y and V=X-
Y are uncorrelated.
11.The joint p.d.f of random variables X and Y is given by
Find (i) the marginal P.d.f of X
(ii) P[X+Y<1/2] (iii)cov.(X,Y)
12.The random variable [X,Y] has the following joint p.d.f.
(i) Obtain the marginal distribution of
X, (ii) (iii) Compute co-variance [X,Y].
13.Two random variables X and Y are defined as Y=4X + 9. Find the correlation coefficient between X and Y.
14.The regression equations of two random variables X and Y are
The standard deviation of X is 3. Find
the standard deviation of Y.
15.Calculate the correlation co-efficient and obtain the lines of regression from the data given below:
X 62 64 65 69 70 71 72 74
Y 126 125 139 145 165 152 180 208
16.Following table gives the data on rainfall and discharge in a certain river. Obtain the line of regression of y on x.
Rainfall 1.53 1.78 2.60 2.95 3.42
(inches) (X):
Discharge (100 C.C) (Y):
33.5 36.3 40.0 45.8 53.5
17.If the equations of the two lines of regression of y on x and x on y are respectively, 7x-16y+9=0; 5y-4x-3=0, calculate the co-efficient of correlation,
18.The joint probability density function of the two random variables X and Y
be . Find the p.d.f of
19.If X and Y are independent random variables each normally distributed with mean zero and variance find the density functions of
and
20.If X and Y are independent random variables each following N (0,2), find the probability density function of Z=2X+3Y.
21.The random variables X and Y have joint p.d.f.
(i) Are X and Y independent? (ii) Find the
conditional p.d.f. of X given Y.
22.The joint p.d.f. of a bivariate random variable (X,Y) is given by
where K is a constant (i) find the value of k.
(ii)Find P[X+Y<1] (iii) Are X and Y independent random variables. Explain.
23.A random sample of size 100 is taken from a population whose mean is 60 and the variance is 400. Using Central limit theorem, with what probability can we assert that the mean of the sample will not differ from by more than 4?
24.State and prove Central limit theorem.
25.A distribution with unknown mean has variance equal to 1.5. Use central limit theorem to find how large a sample should be taken from the distribution in order that the probability will be atleast 0.95 that the sample mean will be within 0.5 of the population mean.
UNIT III
CLASSIFICATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES
PART A
1. Give an example for a continuous time random process.
2. State the four types of a stochastic processes.
3. Define stationary process.
4. Define Widesnse stationary and strict sense stationary random processes.
5. Give an example of stationary random process and justify your claim.
6. When is a random process said to be erodic.
7. State the properties of an erodic process.
8. Give an example of an erodic process.What is Markov process and give example.
9. Define Markov chain and one-step transition probability.
10.What is Markov chain? When can you say that a Markov chain is homogeneous?
11.Find the nature of the states of the Markov chain with the transition
probability matrix
12.Define irreducible Markov chain? And state chaman-Kolmogorow theorem.
13.Explain any two applications of a binomial process.
14.State any two properties of Poisson process.What will be the superposition of ‘n’ independent Poisson processes with respective average rates
15.Define Gaussian process.
16.Define sine-wave process.
17.State any two applications for a sine-wave process.
18.Define Birth process.
19.State and prove any one properties of Normal process.
PART B
1. Consider the random process where is a random variable
with density function check whether the process is
stationary or not.
2. Consider the random process where is uniformly distributed in the interval Check whether X(t) is stastionary or not?
3. Show that the random process is wide sense stationary if A & are constant and is uniformly distributed random variable in
.
4. Give a random variable Y with characteristic function and a random process defined by show that [X(t)] is stationary in the wide sense of
5. Two random process X(t) and Y(t) are defined by show that X(t) and Y(t)
are jointly wide-sense stationary if A and B are uncorrelated random variables with zero means and the same variances and is constant.
6. Consider a random process where U and V are independent random variables each of which assumes the values -2 and 1
with probabilities 1/3 and 2/3 respectively. Show that X(t) is wide sense stationary and not strict sense stationary?
7. Prove that the random process where A and are constants and is uniformly distributed random variable in is correlation ergodic.
8. Given that WSS random process where is uniformly distributed over is correlation ergodic.
9. Consider a Markov chain with 2 states and transition probability matrix
Find the stationary probabilities of the chain.
10.Find P(n) for the homogeneous Markov chain with the following transition
probability matrix
11.Define a Markov chain. How you would clarify the states and identify different classes of a Markov chain. Give an example to each class.
12.Write a short note on Binomial processes.
13.The inter arrival time of a Poisson process (i.e) the interval between two successive occurrence of a Poisson process with parameter has an
exponential distribution with mean
14.The difference of two independent poisson process is not a Poisson process.
15.Find the mean and autocorrelation of the Poisson process.
16.Derive the distribution of Poisson process and find its mean and variance.
17.Describe Poisson process. State and establish its properties.
18.If {X(t)} is Gaussian process with find the
probability that (i) (ii)
19.Write a short note on sine-wave process. For the sine wave process =constant, the amplitude Y is a random
variable with uniform distribution in the interval 0 to 1. Check whether the processes is stationary or not.
20.Derive the Balance equation of the brith and death process.
UNIT IV
CORRELATION AND SPECTRAL DENSITIES
PART A
1. Define autocorrelation function and prove that for a wide sense stationary process {X(t)},
2. State any two properties of an auto correlation function.
3. The power spectral density of a random process {X(t)} is given by
. Find its autocorrelation function.
4. Explain the concept of auto correlation function.
5. Define Cross-correlation function and state any two of its properties.
6. Explain the concept of cross correlation function.
7. If is the auto correlation function of a random process X(t), obtain the spectral density of X(t).
8. Define spectral density.
9. The power spectral density function of a wide sense stationary process is
given by .Find the auto correlation function of the
process.
10.The autocorrelation function of a wide sense stationary process is given by Determine the power spectral density of the process.
11.What is meant by spectral analysis?
12.The power spectral density of a wide sense stationary process is given by
. Find the auto correlation function of the process.
13.Define cross spectral density and give example.
14.Explain cross power spectrum.
15.State Wienar-Khinchine relation.
PART B
1. Given that the auto correlation function for a stationary ergodic process
with no periodic components is Find the mean and
variance of the process {X(t)}.
2. Consider a random process where B and are independent random variables. B is a random variable with mean 0 and variance 1. is uniformly distributed in the interval Find mean and auto correlation of the process.
3. Derive the mean auto correlation and auto covariance of Poisson process.
4. If {X(t)} is a wide sense stationary process with auto correlation function and if show that
5. The auto correlation function for a stationary process X(t) is given by
Find the mean of the random variable and
variance of X(t).
6. Find the mean and auto correlation of the Poisson process.
7. Consider two random process
where is a random variable uniformly distributed in . Prove that
8. Prove that the random processes X(t) and Y(t) defined by are jointly wide-
sense stationary if A and B are uncorrelated zero mean random variables with the same variance.
9. Given that a process X(t) has the auto correlation function
are real constants, find the
power spectrum of X(t).
10.Show that where are the power spectral density functions of the input X(t) and the output Y(t) and is the system transfer function.
11.The cross –power spectrum of real random process X(t) and Y(t) is given
by . Find the cross-correlation function.
12.Calculate the power spectral density of a stationary random process whose
auto correlation is
13.If the cross-correlation of two processes {X(t)} and {Y(t)} is
where A,B and are constants.
Find the cross power spectrum.
UNIT V
LINEAR SYSTEMS WITH RANDOM VARIABLES
PART A1. Describe a linear system.2. Define a system. When is it called linear system?3. State the properties of a linear filter.4. Describe a linear system with an random input.5. Give an example for a linear system.
PART B
6. Show that the inter arrival time of a Poisson process with intensity obeys an exponential law.
7. Show that for an input output system
where is the system transfer
function, and the input X is wide sense stationary.
8. Show that are the power spectral density functions of the input X(t) and the output Y(t) and is the system transfer function.