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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics III 5 b i Solution by
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Take independent Bernoulli random variables of success probability , independently of . On the event , the random sum has the binomial distribution with parameters , including the empty sum zero at . It therefore has exactly the specified joint distribution with .
Thus one may realize on a suitable probability space. This is a distributional construction; it does not require a pre-existing to be independent of .
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