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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2016 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability 9 b iii Solution by
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Write and . For , the factor is at most one throughout , soFor , compare the tails instead: throughout , givingRearranging provesThis is stochastic domination of by its size-biased distribution. The proof needs only the finite positive mean, not the finite variance assumed in (ii).
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