Consider a discrete random variable with the following probability mass function x 0 1 2 3...

Consider a discrete random variable with the following probability mass function

x	0	1	2	3	4	5
p(x)	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1

Generate a random sample of size n =10000 from this distribution. Construct a bar diagram of the observed frequencies versus the expected frequencies.(using R)

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