MAT330/681 LECTURE 15 (3/23/2022): EXPONENTIAL RANDOM VARIABLES AND HAZARD RATE





Announcements: Please remember that HW7 is due tonight, as usual.


• Video 1: Exponential random variable and its expected value: Download file or watch below

By the way, you can play with the parameter $\lambda$ of an exponential distribution and see how it affects the shape of the probability density function here.


• Video 2: Variance of exponential random variable: Download file or watch below


• Video 3: Memorylessness of exponential random variables: Download file or watch below


• Video 4: Exercise: Download file or watch below


• Video 5: Hazard rates: Download file or watch below




• Lecture Notes (static file from above videos): PDF file





Last updated: Mar 23, 2022, 11:00am EDT