6 Jointly continuous random variables
Recall that X is continuous if there is a function f(x) (the density) such that P(X ≤ t) = Z t −∞ fX(x)dx We generalize this to two random variables. Definition 1. Two random variables X and Y are jointly continuous if there is a function fX,Y (x,y) on R2, called the joint probability density function, such that P(X ≤ s,Y ≤ t) = Z Z ...
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