Thursday, 2 February 2017

Is there an intuitive explanation for the probability mass function of Y that you discovered?



Suppose I have an urn with 9 balls: 4 green, 3 yellow and 2 white ones. I draw a ball from
the urn repeatedly with replacement, until I see the first green or yellow ball, and then I stop. Let
N be the number draws I needed. Let Y equal 1 if the last draw is green and 2 if the last draw is
yellow. Find the joint and marginal probability mass functions of N and Y and determine whether

N and Y are independent. Is there an intuitive explanation for the probability mass function of Y
that you discovered?



I'm completely loss and can't even start. From what I understand, NGeom(79), but I can't get what is the distribution of Y. What is the pmf of Y? And how to find joint pmf? Thank you.


Answer



Guide:



Note thatPr(N=n,Y=1)=(29)n149




Finding Pr(N=n,Y=2) should be similar and you should be able to compute the marginal distribution.


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