Appendix CVariance Derivations
Generally, for any random variable 
,
where 
.
C.1 Variance of the Geometric Distribution (Chapter 10)
If 
is a random variable having a geometric distribution with parameter 
, then
because
Writing 
, we have
Now,
Multiply by 
to get
Subtracting,
recognizing as the ...
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