\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,pdftex]{exam} \newcommand{\exercisetopic}{Statistics} \newcommand{\exercisenum}{X2} \newcommand{\exercisedate}{XXX} \input{../../exercisesheader} \firstpagefooter{Prof. Dr. Jan Benda}{}{jan.benda@uni-tuebingen.de} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{document} \input{../../exercisestitle} \begin{questions} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \question \qt{Probabilities of a die II} Now we analyze several dice at once. \begin{parts} \part Simulate 20 dice, each of which is rolled 100 times (each die is simulated with the same random number generator). \part Compute for this data set for each die a normalized histogram. \part Calculate the mean and the standard deviation for each face value averaged over the dice. \part Visualize the result in a bar plot with error bars (\code{bar()} and \code{errorbar()} functions). \end{parts} \begin{solution} \lstinputlisting{die2.m} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{die2} \end{solution} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \question \qt{Probabilities of a normal distribution} Which fraction of a normally distributed data set is contained in ranges that are symmetric around the mean? \begin{parts} \part Generate a data set $X = (x_1, x_2, ... x_n)$ of $n=10000$ normally distributed numbers with mean $\mu=0$ and standard deviation $\sigma=1$ (\code{randn() function}). \part Estimate and plot the probability density of this data set (normalized histogram). For a comparison plot the normal distribution \[ p_g(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma^2}}e^{-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^2} \] into the same plot. \part \label{onesigma} How many data values are at maximum one standard deviation away from the mean?\\ That is, how many data values $x_i$ have the value $-\sigma < x_i < +\sigma$?\\ What is the probability $P_{\pm\sigma}$ to get a value in this range? \part \label{probintegral} Compute the probability of $-\sigma < x_i < +\sigma$ by numerically integrating over the probability density of the normal distribution \[ P_{\pm\sigma}=\int_{x=\mu-\sigma}^{x=\mu+\sigma} p_g(x) \, dx \; .\] First check whether \[ \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} p_g(x) \, dx = 1 \; . \] Why is this the case? \part What fraction of the data is contained in the intervals $\pm 2\sigma$ and $\pm 3\sigma$? Compare the results with the corresponding integrals over the normal distribution. \part \label{givenfraction} Find out which intervals, that are symmetric with respect to the mean, contain 50\,\%, 90\,\%, 95\,\% and 99\,\% of the data by means of numeric integration of the normal distribution. \part \extra Modify the code of questions \pref{onesigma} -- \pref{givenfraction} such that it works for data sets with arbitrary mean and arbitrary standard deviation.\\ Check your code with different sets of random numbers.\\ How do you generate random numbers of a given mean and standard deviation using the \code{randn()} function? \end{parts} \newsolutionpage \begin{solution} \lstinputlisting{normprobs.m} \end{solution} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \question \qt{Central limit theorem} According to the central limit theorem the sum of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables converges toward a normal distribution, although the distribution of the randmon variables might not be normally distributed. With the following questions we want to illustrate the central limit theorem. \begin{parts} \part Before you continue reading, try to figure out yourself what the central limit theorem means and what you would need to do for illustrating this theorem. \part Draw 10000 random numbers that are uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 (\code{rand} function). \part Plot their probability density (normalized histogram). \part Draw another set of 10000 uniformly distributed random numbers and add them to the first set of numbers. \part Plot the probability density of the summed up random numbers. \part Repeat steps (d) and (e) many times. \part Compare in a plot the probability density of the summed up numbers with the normal distribution \[ p_g(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma^2}}e^{-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^2}\] with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ of the summed up random numbers. \part How do the mean and the standard deviation change with the number of summed up data sets? \part \extra Check the central limit theorem in the same way using exponentially distributed random numbers (\code{rande} function). \end{parts} \begin{solution} \lstinputlisting{centrallimit.m} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{centrallimit-hist01} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{centrallimit-hist02} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{centrallimit-hist03} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{centrallimit-hist05} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{centrallimit-samples} \end{solution} \end{questions} \end{document}