Re: Expectation function
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- Subject: [mg120288] Re: Expectation function
- From: Darren Glosemeyer <darreng at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <201107150119.VAA23653@smc.vnet.net>
On 7/14/2011 8:19 PM, paulvonhippel at yahoo wrote:
> I'm having a little trouble with the Expectation function in
> Mathematica. I'd like to calculate the expectation of the product of
> two independent variables. One has a standard normal distribution, the
> other is distributed F. It's obvious that the expectation is zero, but
> when I put the problem to Mathematica, all it does is echo the input.
> Here's the simplest way I've put the question:
>
> Expectation[Z* F, F \[Distributed] FRatioDistribution[df, df], Z \
> [Distributed] NormalDistribution[0, 1]]
>
> Mathematica just echoes the input. I try adding some assumptions to
> ensure that the variance of the F distribution is defined.
>
> Assuming[{df>= 3, df \[Element] Integers}, %]
>
> And Mathematica just echoes the input again.
>
> The other way to do this is to use TransformedDistribution and then
> use Mean. I get the same result that way.
>
> The problem I actually want to solve is more complicated, of course,
> but today I'll settle for solving the easier version. Many thanks for
> any pointers.
>
The \[Distributed] statements need to be given in a list. With that
modification, you'll get a correct result:
In[1]:= Expectation[Z*F, {F \[Distributed] FRatioDistribution[df, df], Z
\[Distributed] NormalDistribution[0, 1]}]
Out[1]= 0
Darren Glosemeyer
Wolfram Research
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- Expectation function