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Past exam of the probability course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b iii Solution by
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Under independence of random variables, the law of a random variable is the mixed probability distribution . For negative , only the uniform component can contribute to ; at zero the probability mass is included. Thus its cumulative distribution function isThe sketch consists of a horizontal segment at height zero before , a line of slope ending at the open point , a jump of size to the closed point , another line of slope ending at , and a horizontal segment thereafter. The cumulative distribution function is right-continuous at the jump.
Cumulative distribution function of the independent Bernoulli-uniform product, illustrated at
. Details. Under the literal assumptions, write . The general answer is , so the continuous part of the sketch is undetermined. The jump at zero is still exactly , because . In the dependent counterexample from (ii), for , for , and for .
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