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Introduction to Probability
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Introduction to Probability

by Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang
September 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
596 pages
18h 33m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 7

Joint distributions

When we first introduced random variables and their distributions in Chapter 3, we noted that the individual distributions of two r.v.s do not tell us anything about whether the r.v.s are independent or dependent. For example, two Bern(1/2) r.v.s X and Y could be independent if they indicate Heads on two different coin flips, or dependent if they indicate Heads and Tails respectively on the same coin flip. Thus, although the PMF of X is a complete blueprint for X and the PMF of Y is a complete blueprint for Y , these individual PMFs are missing important information about how the two r.v.s are related.

Of course, in real life, we usually care about the relationship between multiple r.v.s in the same experiment. To ...

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