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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2021 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability 7 b iv Solution by
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Conditioning on has positive probability exactly when for an integer . This is the same event as . The addition of independent Poisson random variables gives a Poisson distribution with parameter for the sum. Therefore, for ,Thus . The case is a constant zero random variable. For even, nonpositive, or noninteger , the conditioning event has zero probability, so an event-conditional probability distribution is not specified by the quotient formula. This is a two-component case of Poisson-multinomial conditioning.
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