(Solved): Question 3. A college collects data on its students' physical exercise time per week. Use X to deno ...
Question 3. A college collects data on its students' physical exercise time per week. Use X to denote a student's sex with male being 1 and female being 0 . And Y is the weekly physical exercise time in terms of hours. The following table shows the joint probabilities in parentheses. a) What is the marginal distribution of Y, and what is the mean of Y ? (5 points) b) What is the male student's share in this college? What is the female student's share in this college? (5 points) c) Given X=1, what is the conditional distribution of Y ? What is E(Y∣X=1) ? ?(5 points) d) Given X=0, what is the conditional distribution of Y ? What is E(Y∣X=0) ? (5 points) e) Use your answers in a) to d) to verify the Law of Iterated Expectations. ( 5 points)
To solve the given questions, let's calculate the required probabilities and expectations step by step.a) The marginal distribution of Y can be obtained by summing the joint probabilities for each value of Y.For Y = 2:
P(Y = 2) = P(X = 0, Y = 2) + P(X = 1, Y = 2) = 0.2 + 0.12 = 0.32For Y = 4:
P(Y = 4) = P(X = 0, Y = 4) + P(X = 1, Y = 4) = 0.1 + 0.04 = 0.14For Y = 8:
P(Y = 8) = P(X = 0, Y = 8) + P(X = 1, Y = 8) = 0.3 + 0.24 = 0.54The marginal distribution of Y is as follows:Y = 2: P(Y = 2) = 0.32
Y = 4: P(Y = 4) = 0.14
Y = 8: P(Y = 8) = 0.54