A hint to get started
Distinguish a transformed observation from two independent observations
The discrete random variable has distribution
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(i) Evaluate . (ii) Find and . (iii) Write down and . (iv) For two independent observations of , find and, using from (i), find .
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CJC · Lecture · Example 14
Normalize and calculate the two base moments first.
Focus on parts(iii)–(iv): one transformed observation versus two independent observations.
For the probability in(iv), list the three ordered pairs that sum to 2.