Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 207 5 c i Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
Since has cumulative hazard function ,Thus the cumulative-hazard time change has an exponential distribution of rate .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 207 6 b Solution 2026-09-28
By Bayes theorem, the frailty distribution among survivors has densityIt is an exponential distribution with rate .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 4 28K a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Generate and setFor ,which is the distribution function of an exponential distribution with rate one. This is inverse transform sampling.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 3 27J a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
In Kendall notation, the first two letters mean Poisson arrivals and exponential service times. An M-M-1 queue has arrival rate , one server of rate , and queue-length transitionsIt has a stationary distribution of an M-M-1 queue exactly whenand then
An M-M-infinity queue has infinitely many servers, so every customer begins service immediately. Its occupancy transitions areThe detailed balance for a birth-death process equations giveThus for every the stationary distribution of an M-M-infinity queue exists and isthe Poisson distribution of mean . The Burke theorem for an M-M-infinity queue states that in this stationary regime the departure process is a Poisson process of rate ; equivalently, time reversal turns departures into arrivals. The past departure process is also independent of the number in the system at the observation time.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 201 4 b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Under the Cameron-Martin theorem for a linear drift, the probability that Brownian motion with drift reaches isUsing the supplied Laplace transform with givesand henceThis is the survival function of the exponential distribution with rate .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 207 1 e ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The minimum of the recovery and death clocks has an exponential distribution with rate . Its expected value is therefore
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 207 1 e i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The two event clocks have independent exponential distributions with rates and . The competing exponential clocks identity gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 207 5 a ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The transformation is . Because has a unit-rate exponential distribution,Thus has a Weibull distribution, withConsequently is constant, proving proportional hazards.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 356 1 a Solution 2026-09-28
Write the molecular copy numbers as and use the power-law reaction propensity convention of the paper. The seven propensities and stoichiometric vectors areA channel is assigned zero propensity whenever its update would leave the nonnegative integer lattice.
The Gillespie algorithm starts from and . At the current state compute . If , terminate the path. Otherwise draw independent random variables from the uniform distribution on , set the next waiting time toand choose the least index satisfyingThen update and , and repeat. The minimum of the seven competing reaction clocks has an exponential distribution of rate , while reaction wins with probability .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 356 1 c Solution 2026-09-28
Only reaction 1 changes . Starting from five molecules, its successive states are , with rates and ; state one is then absorbing for this channel. ThusThe probability of still being at three is the convolution of the first waiting time with an exponential distribution and survival of the second:Applying the law of total probability to the three possible states givesIt has and tends to one as both reaction waiting times elapse.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 207 4 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
If , the inverse transform sampling formulahas survival function and hence the required exponential distribution.
Population hazard under exponential frailty 2026-09-28
For unit-rate exponential distribution frailty, the population survival and hazard in a proportional frailty model areThe surviving frailty distribution is exponential with rate .
Rayleigh distribution Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
At unit scale the probability density function is for . Its square has an exponential distribution of rate . Thus has this distribution for a uniform distribution variable on .
Reaction propensity function 2026-09-28
The reaction propensity is the instantaneous rate at which reaction fires when the copy-number state is . Conditional on the present state, its reaction clock has an exponential distribution of rate .
If has exponential distribution with expected value , the tail integral formula for moments gives and , where . At matching retained expected value, the excess variance under quota share reinsurance is .
Service time 2026-10-07
Shifted exponential maximum likelihood 2026-10-07
A shifted exponential distribution has location estimate equal to the sample minimum and rate estimate given above, for a nondegenerate sample of at least two observations. The minimum exceeds the true location on average by . The residual sum above the minimum is gamma with shape , so the rate estimate has expectation for and infinite expectation at . The estimated location plus reciprocal rate is the unbiased sample mean.
Shifted-exponential Poisson mixture 2026-10-07
When the random intensity is with having an exponential distribution of rate , the mixed count is the sum of independent Poisson distribution and support-zero geometric distribution counts. The Poisson parameter is and the geometric success probability is . At the law is geometric.
For independent samples from an exponential distribution, a test of rate at most against rate greater than rejects for small sample sums. All simple-alternative likelihood ratios against decrease with that sum; its gamma distribution calibrates the size at . Monotonicity of the rejection probability in the rate proves that this is a uniformly most powerful test for the composite hypotheses.
Variance-minimizing exponential retention 2026-10-07
For exponential distribution claims of mean and compound Poisson distribution count parameter , the total party variance under excess of loss reinsurance is . Its derivative is , so is the unique global minimum, with value .