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Lecture 14

10 Abril 2024, 13:30 Davide Masoero

Review: expected value of a function of a bidimensional random variable.
Covariance, definition and properties.
Variance of  a function of a bidimensional random variable.
Variance of the sum of random variable and covariance.
Exercise 5 of Chapter 5.
Linear correlation coefficients. Scatter plots.
Conditional Expectation, conditional mean, mean independence. Example.
Law of iterated expectations. Example: average gross salary by education level


Lecture 13

8 Abril 2024, 12:00 Davide Masoero

Review: bidimensional continuous random variable
Expected values of a function of a two-dimensional random variable.
Expected value of the sum of two random variables and expected value of the product of two independent random variable.
Exercise.
Product moments about the origin and about the mean. Case when r+s= or r+s=2.
Covariance. Properties, Cov (X,Y)= E[X Y]-E[X] E[Y]


Practice 7

5 Abril 2024, 10:30 Ricardo Pinto Moura

Chapter 4: 4; 5; 8; 11


Lecture 12

3 Abril 2024, 13:30 Davide Masoero

Review: discrete bivariate random variable, contingency table
Continuous bivariate random variable, joint and marginal probability density function, example
Conditional probability function and conditional probability density function, example


Practice 6

22 Março 2024, 10:30 Ricardo Pinto Moura

Chapter 3: 11 b)c); 12 a); 17

Chapter 4: 1 and 3.