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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2015 Paper 2 14 e Solution by
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The product formula requires independent failure times. This assumption is not stated in the original PDF. Under that intended assumption, put and use the failure probabilities for two independent lifetimes:Its graph is a cubic increasing from to , convex before reaching its plateau.
Without independence, the marginal distributions do not determine . The Fréchet inequalities give the sharp pointwise boundsFor example, taking and with the same uniform random variable preserves both prescribed marginals but gives , rather than .
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