Consider a statistical experiment where you flip two coins and you are interested in how many heads flipped. (1) Write a description of the random variable describing this experiment, i.e. X = ”some description” (2) Write a probability distribution describing the probability of the outcomes of this event. (3) What is the expected number of heads flipped?

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Consider a statistical experiment where you flip two coins and you are interested in how many heads flipped.

(1) Write a description of the random variable describing this experiment, i.e. X = ”some description”

(2) Write a probability distribution describing the probability of the outcomes of this event.
(3) What is the expected number of heads flipped?
(4) What is the variance and standard deviation of the number of heads flipped?

 

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