Integrating the probability density function from its lower endpoint to gives the cumulative distribution function
It is continuous and strictly increasing on the support. Hence the unique median satisfies , or . Therefore
Integrating the first probability density function gives the cumulative distribution function
Its graph is a straight ramp from to , followed by a horizontal plateau.
The second cumulative distribution function is the integral of its density:
Its graph is an upward-curving parabolic arc from to , followed by a horizontal plateau. Both cumulative functions are continuous at their upper support endpoints.
The graph of the positive-delay probability density function is a horizontal segment at height from to , followed by zero from to . Values at individual endpoints do not affect probabilities. The separate atom at zero is not a finite-height part of this density graph.
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Positive-delay density and the full cumulative distribution, whose jump records the no-delay atom
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The companion cumulative distribution function in the figure is for , for , and for . Its jump at zero displays the discrete part without confusing density height with probability mass.
For , integrate the probability density function to obtain the cumulative distribution function
If , the requested probability is . Since the hyperbolic tangent is odd, this gives
The second case matters because the question places no sign restriction on : the event is empty when its upper endpoint is nonpositive. Using an oriented integral from to a negative would give a negative number, not a probability.
The angular interval has width , so its continuous uniform distribution has probability density function
Integrating this probability density function gives the cumulative distribution function
Values of the probability density function at the two individual endpoints may be assigned arbitrarily without changing any probability.
The tangent function is strictly increasing on the angular interval. Thus is equivalent, up to the zero-probability endpoints, to . Substituting into the angular cumulative distribution function gives
Its limits are zero and one at the two infinite endpoints. This is the construction in which the tangent of a uniform angle has a Cauchy distribution.
Differentiate the cumulative distribution function using the chain rule:
This is a Cauchy distribution with location zero and scale . The probability density function is nonnegative and integrates to .
Let be the cumulative distribution function of . Normalisation of the proposed probability density function requires . The integrated cumulative distribution function on a bounded interval identity gives
For a direct symmetry proof, the continuous symmetric probability distribution satisfies . Hence
In particular is nonnegative and has total integral one over its stated support.
The full cumulative distribution function is
Thus the function graph is horizontal at zero for , rises continuously from to , and is horizontal at one for . Its derivative is positive on and zero at both endpoints. The second derivative changes sign at , giving an inflection point there.
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Cumulative distribution and density, with the mode marked, for Question 16
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At the mode, the cumulative distribution function has value
Since is strictly increasing on , its unique crossing of occurs earlier. Therefore the median is less than the mode.
The requested bounds are and , both within the support. Since the probability distribution is continuous, endpoints have zero probability, and subtraction of the cumulative distribution function gives
This leaves the answer in rational fractions as requested.
Keep general initially, since the final part does not explicitly fix it. For , where , the cumulative distribution function is
The normalization constant in the probability density function of must be
Equivalently, the integrated cumulative distribution function on a bounded interval identity gives . If the assumption from part (c) is retained, the requested special case is . For the value in part (b), it is .
Write , with . Applying polar coordinates and Fubini's theorem gives, for bounded nonnegative measurable ,
Also by absolute continuity of measures. Extending by zero on the negative half-line proves
Both radial pushforward measures have compact support of a measure, so Brenier's theorem on the line supplies a unique optimal transport plan and a transport map , unique -almost everywhere, with
In one dimension, the gradient of a convex function is a nondecreasing function. Nonnegativity holds -almost everywhere because is carried by . To choose a nonnegative, nondecreasing representative everywhere, let be the radial cumulative distribution functions and use the monotone rearrangement
At set , and at use the largest point of the support of a measure . These choices preserve monotonicity and boundedness. Since is continuous, has the uniform distribution on when has law , and the quantile function sends this uniform distribution to . Thus this representative has the required pushforward measure, even if the target has atoms.
By continuity of the cumulative distribution function and nonnegativity, ; strict increase and allow inversion for every . The probability integral transform follows from
Thus is uniformly distributed on .
The order statistics arrange the sample increasingly: . Strict monotonicity means is the th order statistic of independent uniform variables. Its density is
obtained by choosing the observations below and the above it. This is the beta distribution with parameters , so
For the given log-logistic distribution, rearrangement gives
Consequently plot vertically against horizontally. Under a good fit, replacing by its plotting position gives an approximate straight line with
This is a diagnostic probability plot, rather than an assertion that the expectation of the nonlinear transformed order statistic equals that transformed plotting position. Positive observations occur almost surely under the model.
The central limit theorem states that for independent identically distributed variables of finite mean and positive finite variance ,
For a continuous strictly increasing cumulative distribution function, its inverse is defined on . Thus for , proving the uniform law.
If , then for , . Hence , an exponential density of rate one. Its first two moments are one and two, by integration by parts, so and .
Although the original variables may have different distributions, their separate transforms are independent and all uniform. Consequently are independent identically distributed exponentials of rate one, and the statistic is exactly
The stated central limit theorem therefore yields .
For , the geometric distribution tail gives
For , . The limiting cumulative distribution function is therefore for negative and for nonnegative , and it is continuous everywhere. This proves
with rate parameter and mean .