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Mean of a
Discrete
Random
Variable
Mrs. Maylene A. Mangurali
November 4, 2019
Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• illustrate, calculate, and interpret the mean of a discrete random variable, and
• solve problems involving mean of probability distributions.
Before you proceed to the lesson, you must be able to recall the definition of
random variable and discrete random variable.
Random variable is a type of variable whose values are numbers and due to
chance. When the value of a variable is the outcome of a random experiment,
that variable is a random variable. The following are examples of random
variables:
• number of wins that a basketball team has in a given season
• weight of the students
• number of people at a seminar
• time it takes to get to the office
Random variables that are countable are discrete, while those that usually
arise from measurement and are not countable are continuous.
It is important that you can distinguish between discrete and continuous
random variables because different statistical techniques are used to analyze
each.
Calculate the mean of the random variable with the given probability
distribution.
Key Point
The mean or expected value of x of a discrete random variable is given by
the formula
E(x)=μx=Σ[xi⋅P(xi)]
where xi is the value of the random variable and P(xi) is the probability of
observing the random variable x.