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M.C.A. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, APRIUMAY 2022.

First Semester

MA 4151 - APPLIED PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR COMPUTER

SCIENCE ENGINEERS

(Regulations 2021)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Statistical Table may be permitted.

Answer ALL questions.

PART A-(10 x 2 = 20 marks)

1. Verify whether the set of vectors {(0, 1), (2, 0)} is orthonormal or not.

2. What is the special feature of pseudo inverse?

lxl -1:s;;x:s;;l
3. Test whether f (x) = { ' can be the probability density
0, otherwise
function of a continuous random variable.
4. If X is a Poisson random variable with parameter ,1, > 0, then prove that
E{Xl):A.E(}{+J).

5. The joint pdf of a two-dimensional random variable (X,Y) is given by

/(x, y) = { ke-(s+1>;o ·sxsy,0sys00F .indthe va1ue of'k' .
0 ; otherwise

6. If the covariance between X and Y is 36 and the standard deviation of X and Y

are 16 & 9 respectively, find the coefficient of correlation.

7. What do you mean by delfeel of freedom in testing of hypothesis?

8. Distinguish between parameter and atatistic.

9. What do you mean by random vectors and random matrix?

10. Write down the principal components from standardized variables.

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1 0 0
I 1 0
11. (n) J•'ind a qlt fodori1.ntion of A =
1 l 1
1 1 1

Or

(b) Find tho least squares solution of the linear system Ax = b given by
Xa - x2 a 4; 3.t1 + 2x:l = 1;- 2x1 + 4x 2 = 3

12. (a) (i) For a certain binary, communication channel, the probability that a
transmi tted 'O' is received as a 'O' is 0.95 and the probability that a
transmi tted '1' is received as '1' is 0.90. If the probability that a 'O' is
transmi tted is 0.4, find the probability that (1) a 'l' is received and
(2) a '1' was transmit ted given that a '1' was received. (7)

(ii) Find the moment generating function of Geometric

(6)
distribution.

Or
(b) (i) Messages arrive at a switchboard in a Poisson manner at an
average rate of six per hour. Find the probability for each of the
following events: (1) exactly two messages arrive within one hour
(2) no message arrives within one hour (3) at least three messages
arrive within one hour. (7)

(ii) If X = N(3,9), which means that Xis Normal random variable with
mean 3 and variance 9, find the probability that X lies between
2and5. W)
13. (a) Find the bivariate probability distribution of (X,Y) given below, find
P(X ~ 1),P(Y ~ 3),P(X ~ 1,Y ~ 3),P(X ~ 1/Y ~ 3)andP (X + Y ~ 4).
y 1 2 3 4 5 6
X
0 0 0 1/32 2/32 2/32 3/32
1 1/16 1/16 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8

2 1/32 1/32 1/64 1/64 0 2/64

Or

(b) Find the coefficient of correlation between X and Y, using following data:
X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71

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tht' hll1'pit.nl <'fficiont.'!

d to ho 2.6 an<l the SD of

(ii) 1'he SD of n rnnclom ~umplo of 1000 i11 foun
rnming the sam ples to be
anothl'l' rnntlom 1:1u111plo of 500 is 2.7. AR1
plee could hav e come from
inde pcnd t•nt, find whothor tho two sum
(6)
populntion1:1 with the 1:11rn1o SD.

Or

of air- craf t acci den ts that

(b) (i) The following data give the num ber
k:
occu rred duri ng the various days of a wee

Day Mon Tue s Wed Thu rs Fri Sat

19 13 12 16 15
No. of acci dent s 16

dist ribu ted over the wee k.

Tes t whe ther the accidents are uniformly
(7)
(Use Chi- squa re test)

pop ulat ion vari ance of 3.0,

(ii) A sam ple of size 13 gave an esti mat ed
mat e of 2.6. Could both
while ano ther sam ple of size 16 gave an esti
pop ulat ions with the sam e
samples be from
(6)
variance?
ribu tion of
15. (a) For X dist ribu ted as N 3 (µ, L), find the dist

Or

random vari able s X,, X1 and Xa hav e the cov aria nce
(b) Utt

maWt•[-:2
the
-2
5
0
l
~
Find all the Principal components.

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 PART C - (1 x 15 = 15 marks)

16. (a) Let X and Y have the joint probability density function
kxye-<x'+l>.x > 0 y > 0
/(x,y) = ' ' (i) Find the value of k (ii) Find the
{0 ; otherwise
marginal PDFs of X and Y (iii) Are X and Y independent? Justify.

Or
(b) Is the set of all pairs of real numbers (x,y) with the operations
(x, y)+ (x', y') = (x + x' + 1, y + y' + 1) and k(x. y) = (kx, ky) a vector space?
Verify all the axioms and list the axioms that fail to hold if it is not a
vector space .

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