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01jbell
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hey guys/gals i have been given this cw question however i spent ages and can't seem to get my head around it can some one give me a hand
" the number N of wrecks in a particular area of sea off the Cornish coast has a poisson distribution with mean [tex]\propto[/tex] . the probability that a wreck is known is p . Let X denote the number of known wrecks
(a) state the conditional distribution of X given N=n
(b) Find the Marginal Distribution of X "
thats the question now i think (a) has some hting to do with Binonial distribution
but i am complety stummped on (b)
any help would be great
thanks
" the number N of wrecks in a particular area of sea off the Cornish coast has a poisson distribution with mean [tex]\propto[/tex] . the probability that a wreck is known is p . Let X denote the number of known wrecks
(a) state the conditional distribution of X given N=n
(b) Find the Marginal Distribution of X "
thats the question now i think (a) has some hting to do with Binonial distribution
but i am complety stummped on (b)
any help would be great
thanks