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This document contains the assignment questions for ENEE324 (Spring 2021) taught by Professor Shayman. The assignment involves 9 problems related to probability, random variables, and their distributions. Problem 1 describes a robot moving in the x-y plane according to coin flips and asks to describe the sample space and find probabilities related to the robot's position. Problem 2 gives three joint probability mass functions and asks to find marginal distributions and probabilities. The remaining problems involve additional concepts such as conditional probability, independence, transformations of random variables, and Poisson distributions.

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HW 4

This document contains the assignment questions for ENEE324 (Spring 2021) taught by Professor Shayman. The assignment involves 9 problems related to probability, random variables, and their distributions. Problem 1 describes a robot moving in the x-y plane according to coin flips and asks to describe the sample space and find probabilities related to the robot's position. Problem 2 gives three joint probability mass functions and asks to find marginal distributions and probabilities. The remaining problems involve additional concepts such as conditional probability, independence, transformations of random variables, and Poisson distributions.

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ENEE324 (Spring 2021): Professor Shayman

Assignment 4

1. At even time instants, a robot moves either +∆cm or −∆cm in the x-


direction according to the outcome of a flip of a fair coin; at odd time
instants, the robot moves similarly in the y-direction according to another
coin flip. Assuming that the robot begins at the origin, let X and Y be
the coordinates of the location of the robot after 2n time instants.
(a) Describe the underlying sample space Ω of this random experiment
and the mapping from Ω to ΩXY , the range of the pair (X, Y ).
(b) Find the marginal pmf’s of the coordinates X and Y .
√
(c) Find the probability that the robot is within 2 of the origin after
2n time instants.
2. (a) Find the marginal pmf’s for the pairs of random variables with the
indicated joint pmf.

X/Y -1 0 1 X/Y -1 0 1 X/Y -1 0 1


-1 1/6 1/6 0 -1 1/9 1/9 1/9 -1 1/3 0 0
0 0 0 1/3 0 1/9 1/9 1/9 0 0 1/3 0
1 1/6 1/6 0 1 1/9 1/9 1/9 1 0 0 1/3
(b) Find the probability of the events A = {X > 0}, B = {X ≥ Y }, and
C = {X = −Y } for the above joint pmf’s.
3. A modem transmits a two-dimensional signal (X, Y ) given by

X = r cos(2πΘ/8)
Y = r sin(2πΘ/8)

where Θ is a discrete uniform random variable in the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , 7}.


(a) Find the joint pmf of X and Y .
(b) Find the marginal pmf of X and of Y .
(c) Find the√probability of the√following events:
√ A = {X = 0},
√ B =
{Y ≤ r/ 2}, C = {X ≥ r/ 2, Y ≥ r/ 2}, D = {X < −r/ 2}.
4. Let X and Y be random variables with joint pmf given by the following
table:

X=0 X=1 X=2


Y=0 0.2 0.3 0.1
Y=1 0.1 0 0.3

(a) Determine the pmf of X.


(b) Determine the conditional pmf of X given Y = 0.
(c) Determine the conditional mean (expected value) of X given Y = 0.
(d) Determine the probability that X is greater than Y .
(e) Determine the probability that X is greater than Y given that X is
even. (0 is regarded as a even number.)

5. Consider the three joint pmf’s for X and Y given in Problem 2.

(a) For each of the three joint pmf’s, determine whether X and Y are
independent.
(b) For each of the three joint pmf’s, determine the conditional pmf of
X given Y = y for y = −1, 0, 1.
(c) Using your results in (a), determine P (X 6= 0 | Y = 0) for each of the
three joint pmf’s.

6. Consider the three joint pmf’s for X and Y given in Problem 2. Let
Z = g(X, Y ) := X 2 + 2Y .
(a) For each of three joint pmf’s, determine the pmf of Z.
(b) Using the pmf’s of Z obtained in (a), determine E[Z] in each of the
three cases.
(c) Repeat (b), but instead of using the pmf of Z, use the joint pmf of
X and Y to compute E[Z].
(d) For each of the three cases, determine var(Z).
7. Let X, Y, Θ be as described in Problem 3.
(a) Determine if X and Y are independent random variables.
(b) Repeat part (a) if even values of Θ are twice as likely as odd values.
8. The total number of defects X on a chip is a Poisson random variable
with mean α. Each defect has a probability p of falling in a specific region
R, and the location of each defect is independent of the locations of other
defects. Let Y be the number of defects in R.
(a) Determine the conditional pmf of Y given X.
(b) Using the Law of Total Probability, show that the pmf of Y is Poisson
with mean αp.
(c) From (b), we know that the expected value of Y is αp. Explain how
this result could have been obtained without first determining the
pmf of Y by instead using the result of (a) together with the Total
Expectation Theorem.
9. Let X and Y be as described in Problem 8. Let Z be the number of
defects outside region R.

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(a) Find the pmf of Z given Y . Hint: If Y = k, then saying that Z = j
is equivalent to saying that X = k + j.
(b) Find the joint pmf of Y and Z.
(c) Are Y and Z independent random variables? Is the result intuitive?

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