Quiz 1

Course: Statistical Foundation for Data Science

Course Number: MA589
Semester 1, 2020-21, IIT Guwahati
9 October, 2020
Duration: 12:10PM - 12:30PM Total Marks: 15

Instructions:
ˆ Read the questions carefully before answering them. Answer all the 4 questions. Marks for each
question are given on the right hand side.

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1. Let d be the number represented by the last two digit of your roll-number. [For example, if
your roll number is 123456789, then d = 89; and if your roll number is 987654301, then d = 01 = 1.]
Write your name, roll number and the value of d based on your roll number, separated by comma
(,).
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2. Let d has the value based on your roll number as in question 1. Let F (x) be the cumulative
distribution function (CDF) of a random variable X and it is given as

0, if x < 0


1
F (x) = x, if 0 ≤ x < d+20

1, if x ≥ 1 .

d+20
   
1 2
Then find the value of P X > 2(d+20) +P X < (d+20) . [Note: correct to two decimal place]

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3. Let d has the value based on your roll number as in question 1. Consider the joint probability mass
function (p.m.f) of (X, Y ) as

 2x+y

 d+30 , if x = 1, 2; y = 1, 2

 5 , if x = 1; y = 3

f (x, y) = d+30
d+7
d+30 , if x = 2; y = 3





0 otherwise.

Then find the value of E(X) + V (Y |X = 1). [Note: correct to two decimal place]
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4. Let d has the value based on your roll number as in question 1. Consider a random variable T
corresponding to a medical test for a specific disease with two outcomes as
(
1, if the test results in positive
T =
0, if the test results in negative.

The true status of the concerned disease in the population is defined by a random variable S as
(
1, if a person have the disease
S=
0, if a person does NOT have the disease.

It is given that there are d% of people suffering from the disease in the population; and, following
are given,
d + 10
P (T = 1) =
100
P (T = 1|S = 1) = 0.72
P (T = 0|S = 0) = 0.32.

Then find the value of P (S = 0|T = 1). [Note: correct to two decimal place]
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