{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Lesson 9 exercises\n", "\n", "
" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Exercise 9.1\n", "\n", "What is the relationship between a cumulative distribution function (CDF) and a probability density function (PDF)? We didn't cover it in class, but what is the relationship between as CDF and a probability mass function (PMF)?" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Exercise 9.2\n", "\n", "Say I am interested in modeling the time it takes for a certain process to happen in a cell. For reasons that you will understand in future lessons, we might model the time $t$ to be Exponentially distributed, having probability density function\n", "\n", "\\begin{align}\n", "f(t) = \\beta \\mathrm{e}^{-\\beta t}.\n", "\\end{align}\n", "\n", "1. Write down the CDF, $F(t)$.\n", "2. Say you are interested instead in the reciprocal time, $k = 1/t$. Write down the PDF for $k$." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Exercise 9.3\n", "\n", "Write down any questions or points of confusion that you have." ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.8.5" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4 }