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Assignment Module 3

1. The document contains 11 assignments related to probability distributions and statistical analysis. The assignments include estimating parameters of exponential, normal, and gamma distributions from data; obtaining maximum likelihood estimators; correlation and regression analysis; and generating random samples from different distributions to compare statistics.

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Assignment Module 3

1. The document contains 11 assignments related to probability distributions and statistical analysis. The assignments include estimating parameters of exponential, normal, and gamma distributions from data; obtaining maximum likelihood estimators; correlation and regression analysis; and generating random samples from different distributions to compare statistics.

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Assignment – Module 3

1. A data set is assumed to follow exponential distribution, with

1
f ( x) =
−x
α x>0
e
α

In the data set, 60% of the values are less than 2.5, estimate the parameter α.

2. Obtain the maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters a and b for the pdf.

 x−a 
− 
 b 
e
f ( x) = a < x < ∞ , -∞ < a < ∞ , b > 0
b

3. Obtain the parameters of the following distribution using method of moments

f(x) = (a+1) x a 0 <x < 1

4. Peak flows at a site have a mean of 675 units and a standard deviation of 220 units.

Obtain the maximum probability that the peak flow in a year will deviate more than 450

units from the mean using Chebyshev’s inequality.

5. Obtain the correlation coefficient for the yearly rainfall and the yearly runoff of a

catchment, 20 years data for which is given below.

Rainfall (cm) 377 363 458 365 430 365 366 317 311 392
Runoff (cm) 365 357 416 358 399 358 359 328 324 375

Rainfall (cm) 353 439 410 423 436 601 336 464 490 402
Runoff (cm) 351 404 386 394 402 506 340 420 436 381

6. Consider the data in the previous problem; obtain the regression equation between

rainfall and runoff.


7. Observations for the past 10 years of groundwater discharge and estimated recharge (in

consistent units) of an artesian aquifer are given below

Discharge 12.2 10.4 10.6 12.6 14.2 13.0 14.0 12.0 10.4 11.4

Recharge 12.0 9.8 11.0 13.2 14.6 14.0 14.0 12.4 10.4 11.6

Assuming a linear relationship between discharge and recharge, with discharge as the

dependent variable and recharge as independent variable, what will be the discharge

when the recharge is 13 units?

8. Generate 50 observations from an exponential distribution with λ = 0.7, Compare the

simulated mean with observed mean.

9. Generate independent samples of 10, 20, 50 and 100 observations from normal

distribution with mean 5 and standard deviation 2. Compare these values of mean and

standard deviation with the computed ones.

10. Generate independent samples of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and100 observations from gamma

distribution with η = 2 and λ = 2.

11. Assuming that the peak flows (in cumecs) given below follow a (a) Normal Distribution,

(b) log-normal distribution, and (c) Exponential Distribution, generate 50 values of the

peak flows, and compare the appropriate statistics of the generated flows for each of the

distributions used with those of the observed flows

14,000 17,700 17,500 15,500 20,500 18,100 15,800 14,900


16,300 14,900 17,600 17,000 17,300 18,300 19,100 17,900
19,400 22,900 16,200 14,300

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