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    Bahrain Teachers College

    University of Bahrain

    TC2MA415: Introductory Statistics Discrete Probability Distribution


    Rules of a Discrete Probability Distribution

    1. The sum of all probabilities must be equal to 1.

    ∑ 𝑃(𝑥) = 1

    2. All probabilities must be between 0 and 1


    0 ≤ 𝑃(𝑥) ≤ 1

    Example 1: Determine if the following is a discrete probability distribution:

    x 1 2 3 4 5
    P(x) 0.15 0.24 0.36 0.40 -0.15

    The Mean or Expected Value of a Discrete Random Variable

    To find the Mean (also known as the Expected value) of a discrete random variable, we take each
    x-value and multiply by its probability. We then add together all the multiplications. This is
    represented by the following formula:

    𝜇𝑋 = ∑ 𝑥 ∙ 𝑃(𝑥)

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    Example 2: Determine the mean/Expected value of the following discrete probability
    distribution.

    x P(x)
    1 0.04
    2 0.24
    3 0.36
    4 0.30
    5 0.06

    Example 3: Find the variance and standard deviation using the data below.

    𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 (𝜎 2 ) = ∑(𝑥 − 𝜇𝑥 )2 ∙ 𝑃(𝑥)

    𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝜎) = √∑(𝑥 − 𝜇𝑥 )2 ∙ 𝑃(𝑥)

    x P(x)
    1 0.04
    2 0.24
    3 0.36
    4 0.30
    5 0.06

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    Example 4. The number of suits sold per day at Suit World is shown in the probability distribution below.

    x P(x)
    19 0.2
    20 0.2
    21 0.3
    22 0.2
    23 0.1

    a. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the distribution.

    =

     =

    =

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