One max of exponentials beating twice another
Question
Mario throws twice with distances , and Luigi throws twice with distances (rate parameters, so means and ); all four are independent. With and , find .
Short answer
. If has rate then has rate , so is the maximum of two independent variables, exactly like . Two i.i.d. continuous variables are equally likely to be the larger, so the probability is .
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- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Independence
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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