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Let X1,..., Xn be independent,
standard normally distributed random variables.
Let S be the sum of all Xi. Let Q be the sum of all Xi2. It is well known that S is distributed normally, with mean 0 and variance n. It is also well known that Q is distributed chi-squared with n degrees of freedom. This month's challenge: what is the distribution of Q given S? A big thank-you goes this month to Omer Angel, who showed me the elegant solution. |
List of solvers:Jan Fricke (2 November 06:37)Ganesh Lakshminarayana (10 November 03:21) Jin Ruizhang (12 November 13:29) Albert Stadler (23 November 21:45) |
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