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What does the probability density function tell you?
The area under the pdf between two values is the probability that the random variable lies between those two values.
What are your expectations in mathematics?
In probability theory, the expectation of a discrete random variable X is the sum, calculated over all values that X can take, of : the product of those values and the probability that X takes that value. In the case of a continuous random variable, it is the corresponding integral.
What is the difference between random variable and random process?
A random variable is a variable which can take different values and the values that it takes depends on some probability distribution rather than a deterministic rule. A random process is a process which can be in a number of different states and the transition from one state to another is random.
What is the difference between 'stochastic' and 'deterministic'?
These words are used to describe ways of modeling or understanding the world. "Stochastic" means that some elements of the model or description are thought of as being random. (The word "Stochastic" is derived from an ancient Greek word for random.) A model or description that has no random factors, but conceivably could, is called "deterministic." For example, the equation Q = VC where Q = charge, V = voltage, and C = capacitance, is a deterministic physical model. One stochastic version of it would be Q = VC + e where e is a random variable introduced to account for or characterize the deviations between the actual charges and the values predicted by the deterministic model.
What is marginal probability?
Suppose you have two random variables, X and Y and their joint probability distribution function is f(x, y) over some appropriate domain. Then the marginal probability distribution of X, is the integral or sum of f(x, y) calculated over all possible values of Y.
