In: Statistics and Probability
Consider a statistical expirement of flipping a pair of fair coins simultaneously. Let X & Y be the number heads in flipping each coin.
Define a joint density function Z = XY. (I provided the answers in bold but I need help understanding how it is solved. Thank you in advance).
a) The number of possible distinct values of Z is: 2
b) The probability of Z = 0 is: 3/4
c) The mean of Z is: 1/4
d) The standard deviation of Z is: sqrt(3/16)
e) The correlation coefficient of X and Y is: 0
f) Which RV follows a uniform distribution among all three random variables, X, Y, and Z? X & Y
f. If all values of random variable have same probability then that random variable has uniform distribution.
X and y having equal probability for its all values but z does not.
Hence X and Y follow uniform distribution.