OCR S4 2015 June — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Random Variables
TypeDerived random variables from samples

7 The discrete random variable \(X\) can take the values 0,1 and 2 with equal probabilities.
The random variables \(X _ { 1 }\) and \(X _ { 2 }\) are independent observations of \(X\), and the random variables \(Y\) and \(Z\) are defined as follows:
\(Y\) is the smaller of \(X _ { 1 }\) and \(X _ { 2 }\), or their common value if they are equal; \(Z = \left| X _ { 1 } - X _ { 2 } \right|\).
  1. Draw up a table giving the joint distribution of \(Y\) and \(Z\).
  2. Find \(P ( Y = 0 \mid Z = 0 )\).
  3. Find \(\operatorname { Cov } ( Y , Z )\).