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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2016 Paper 1 16 a ii Solution by
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For a stop-phase arrival at time , the delay is . An interval of delays of width therefore corresponds to an interval of arrival phases of the same width, because . Its unconditional probability is . Hence the positive-delay part has densityThis ordinary density integrates to , not to one: the remaining probability mass is at . Thus has a uniform distribution with an atom at zero, with mixing weight . Conditional on a positive delay, the density would instead be on .
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