WEEK 8: DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS

INEN 3320, Probability and Statistics for Engineering

Maryam Hamidi, PhD, MBA

Assistant Professor
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List of Topics in Lecture 8

• Discrete Random Variables (RV)
• Bernoulli RV
• Binomial RV
• Geometric RV
• Negative Binomial RV
• Poisson RV
• Probability Mass Function (pmf)
• Expectation and Variance
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Example
• The phone line to a company is busy 40% of time. Assume you
call the company 10 times.
• What is the probability that for exactly three calls the line is
busy?
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• What is the probability that for at least one call, the line is
occupied?
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• What is the expected number of busy line among the 10 calls?

• What is the variance?
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Example
• The probability of an optical alignment is 0.8.
• What is the probability that the first alignment requires
exactly four trials?
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• What is the probability that the first successful alignment

requires at most four trials?
• What is the probability that the first successful alignment
requires at least four trials?
• Mean and variance?
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Example
• The probability of an optical alignment is 0.8.
• What is the probability that the third alignment requires
exactly 7 trials?
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Example
• Aircrafts arrive at an airport with rate alpha=8 per hour.
• What is the probability that exactly 6 aircrafts arrive in one
hour?
• What is the probability that exactly 6 aircrafts arrive in 90
minutes?
• What is the rate for 3 hours?