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Hi all, I have a general question about relative error. Suppose that we have a vector of measurements \hat{b}=\left(\hat{b_{1}},\hat{b_{2}},...,\hat{b_{n}}\right). Furthermore, suppose that these measurements are accurate to 10%. My natural interpretation of this statement is that there is...

Thank you for your reply! Yes. My specific question was about the restriction of x_2 to 0, 1 ,... y. It makes more sense when you give an example. What I'm going to ask next might be dumb and might show that I don't fully understand the transformation technique. Could he have described the...

Hello! I am trying to understand an example from my book that deals with two independent Poisson random variables X1 and X2 with parameters λ1 and λ2. The problem is to find the probability distribution of Y = X1 + X2. I am aware this can be done with the moment-generating function technique...

Thank you Citan. It finally makes sense!

Hi everybody, I am having an extremely hard time understanding a specific relationship that originates from the least common multiple of two or more numbers. According to "Number Theory and Its History" by Oystein Ore, it is not difficult to see that when one writes lcm(a,b,c) = p*a =...