In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose 4 Bernoulli trials, each with success probability p, are conducted such that the outcomes of the 4 experiments are mutually independent. Let the random variable X be the total number of successes over the 4 Bernoulli trials.
(a) Write down the sample space for the experiment consisting of 4 Bernoulli trials (the sample space is all possible sequences of length 4 of successes and failures you may use the symbols S and F).
(b) Give the support (range) X of X.
(c) Tabulate for X the probability distribution Px(X = x) for x ∈ X in terms of the success probability p.
(d) Give the cdf Fx of X (Remember that Fx(x) must be defined for all x ∈ R) in terms of the success probability p.
(e) Make an accurate drawing of the cdf Fx of X in the case p = 1/2.
(f) State whether X is a discrete or a continuous rv and why.