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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability (resit) 8 b iii Solution by
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For each student, the probability of both falling asleep and dreaming about mathematics is . These indicators are independent across students, so the same Poisson thinning calculation gives, for the requested count ,Explicitly , the probability generating function of that Poisson distribution.
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