Question
The following table represents the joint probability distribution of the discrete random variable (X, Y):
| Y X | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
Find
a) The marginal distributions.
b) The conditional distribution of Y given X = 2
Answer :
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Given,
| x/y | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
a) To find the marginal distributions, we have to find the marginal totals, i.e. row totals and column totals as shown in the following table: