Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 2 4F ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
The conditional density givesusing either integration by parts or the expected value of an exponential distribution. HenceThis is a finite value for almost every realization of , but not an integrable random variable: . Since , its conditional expectation remains well-defined in the nonnegative, extended-expectation sense; the tower property of conditional expectation then gives .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 2 4F i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Integrate the joint probability density over to obtain the marginal density of :Thus has an exponential distribution of rate one. Dividing the joint probability density by this marginal density gives the conditional densityEquivalently, has an exponential distribution of rate . The value at can be assigned arbitrarily: it is a probability-zero conditioning value and the density ratio there is not meaningful.