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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2013 Discrete mathematics, probability and continuous mathematics 9 c Solution by
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Complete the square in the transformation:Since almost surely, . For , put . The event is equivalent to . Integrating the given probability density function over both branches at once gives the survival functionThus, including the tails,The cumulative distribution function on is . Differentiation givesBoth inverse branches matter: . The endpoint divergence is integrable, and , so no endpoint atom is needed.
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