Expected area of a field with measurement errors
Question
A pitch is supposed to measure ft by ft. In practice the length is and the width is , where the errors and are independent. What is the expected area of the pitch in square feet?
Short answer
. By independence, , since and .
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- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Independence
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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