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Mixture of a point mass and an exponential distribution
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge
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2004
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Paper 1
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5
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b
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i
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Solution
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The continuous nonnegative part has total
mass
lim
y
→
∞
(
1
−
e
−
y
)
/2
=
1/2
. The remaining
mass
is at
−
1
,
giving
m
=
1/2
. This is
a
mixed probability distribution
, specifically
a
mixture of a point mass and an exponential distribution
; its
atom
must be included in normalization.
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