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to letters nature height using software available from Sontek. From each time series we calculated mean near-bed velocity independent of ow direction. Mean near-bed velocity was compared between treatments using a non-parametric MannWhitney U-test because variances could not be transformed to satisfy parametric assumptions. 26. Hart, D. D. The adaptive signicance of territoriality in lter-feeding larval blackies...

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to letters nature height using software available from Sontek. From each time series we calculated mean near-bed velocity independent of ow direction. Mean near-bed velocity was compared between treatments using a non-parametric MannWhitney U-test because variances could not be transformed to satisfy parametric assumptions. 26. Hart, D. D. The adaptive signicance of territoriality in lter-feeding larval blackies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Oikos 46, 8892 (1986). 27. Englund, G. Asymmetric resource competition in a lter-feeding stream insect (Hydropsyche siltalai: Trichoptera). Freshwat. Biol. 26, 425432 (1991). 28. Okamura, B. Microhabitat variation and patterns of colony growth and feeding in a marine bryozoan. Ecology 73, 15021513 (1992). 29. Vogel, S. Life in Moving Fluids (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1994). 30. Finnigan, J. Turbulence in plant canopies. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 32, 519571 (2000). Resource consumption After measuring near-bed ow, 278 mg of SPM stained with Rose Bengal dye was released as a single pulse into each stream19. Larvae were allowed to feed for 15 min (a duration less than gut passage times) before they were removed from their nets and frozen. We dissected larval guts later and measured the diameter and band length of stained SPM in foreguts using a dissecting microscope and ocular micrometer. Because foreguts are essentially cylindrical, the consumption of SPM by each larva was calculated as mm3 SPM by p band length in foregut (1/2 foregut diameter)2. Per capita consumption was compared between treatments using t-tests. Total resource consumption (the summed consumption of SPM by all larvae inhabiting a stream) was compared between treatments using a non-parametric MannWhitney U-test because variances could not be transformed to satisfy parametric assumptions. We used a paired t-test to compare observed resource consumption in mixed assemblages with the total expected SPM consumption2. Acknowledgements We thank D. Doak, D. Hart, M. Loreau, P. Morin, S. Naeem, K. Sebens, D. Tilman, J. Thomson and T. Welnitz for comments; and S. Brooks for advice on hydrodynamic measurements. This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation to M.A.P. and to B.J.C. Competing interests statement The authors declare that they have no competing nancial interests. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to B.J.C. (e-mail: bc84@umail.umd.edu). Bed roughness At the end of the experiment we recorded the downstream location of every caddisy net and measured their maximum heights and widths. We calculated the average maximum height and density of the roughness elements, as well as their aggregation and topographical complexity. Aggregation measures the spacing between roughness elements as the mean euclidian distance between neighbouring nets. Topographical complexity measures the spatial uniformity or non-uniformity of roughness elements as the standard deviation of the parabolic area (in mm2) of catchnets. An s.d. of 0 indicates a uniform streambed (no topographical complexity), whereas a higher s.d. indicates greater streambed complexity. We compared all four aspects of bed roughness between treatments using t-tests. Received 8 October; accepted 26 November 2001. 1. Hector, A. et al. Plant diversity and productivity experiments in European grasslands. Science 286, 11231127 (1999). 2. Loreau, M. & Hector, A. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature 412, 7276 (2001). 3. Mulder, C., Uliassi, D. & Doak, D. Physical stress and diversityproductivity relationships: The role of positive interactions. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 98, 67046708 (2001). 4. Tilman, D. et al. Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment. Science 294, 843 845 (2001). 5. Jones, C. G., Lawton, J. H. & Shachack, M. Positive and negative effects of organisms as physical ecosystem engineers. Ecology 78, 19461957 (1997). 6. Luttge, U. Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants (Springer, Berlin, 1997). 7. Naeem, S., Thompson, L. J., Lawler, S. P., Lawton, J. H. & Woodn, R. M. Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems. Nature 368, 734737 (1994). 8. Cardinale, B. J., Nelson, K. & Palmer, M. A. Linking species diversity to the functioning of ecosystems: on the importance of environmental context. Oikos 91, 175183 (2000). 9. Chapin, F. S. et al. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405, 234242 (2000). 10. Tilman, D., Lehman, D. & Thompson, K. Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: theoretical considerations. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 94, 18571861 (1997). 11. Hooper, D. & Vitousek, P. The effects of plant composition and diversity on ecosystem processes. Science 277, 13021305 (1997). 12. Huston, M. Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity. Oecologia 110, 449460 (1997). 13. Wardle, D. A. Is ``sampling effect'' a problem for experiments investigating biodiversityecosystem function relationships? Oikos 87, 403410 (1999). 14. Fridley, J. D. The inuence of species diversity on ecosystem productivity: how, where, and why? Oikos 93, 514526 (2001). 15. Tilman, D. et al. The inuence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes. Science 277, 13001302 (1997). 16. Chapin, S. et al. Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity. BioScience 48, 4552 (1998). 17. Palmer, M. A. et al. Biodiversity and ecosystem function in freshwater sediments. Ambio 26, 571577 (1997). 18. Nowell, A. R. M. & Jumars, P. Flow environments of aquatic benthos. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15, 303 328 (1984). 19. Cardinale, B. J. & Palmer, M. A. Disturbance moderates biodiversityecosystem function relationships: evidence from caddisy assemblages in stream mesocosms. Ecology (in the press). 20. Loudon, C. & Alstad, D. N. Theoretical mechanisms of particle capture: Predictions for hydropsychid distributional ecology. Am. Nat. 135, 360381 (1990). 21. Eckman, J. E., Nowell, A. R. M. & Jumars, P. J. Sediment destabilization by animal tubes. J. Mar. Res. 39, 361374 (1981). 22. Johnson, A. Flow around phoronids: Consequences of a neighbor to suspension feeders. Limnol. Oceanogr. 35, 13951401 (1990). 23. Huettel, M. & Gust, G. Impact of bioroughness on interfacial solute exchange in permeable sediments. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 89, 253267 (1992). 24. Butman, C. A., Frechette, M., Geyer, W. R. & Starczak, V. R. Flume experiments on food supply to the blue mussel Mytilus edulis L. as a function of boundary-layer ow. Limnol. Oceanogr. 39, 17551768 (1994). 25. Sebens, K. P., Witting, J. & Helmuth, B. Effects of water ow and branch spacing on particle capture by the reef coral Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing and Michelotti). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 211, 128 (1997). ................................................................. Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion Marc O. Ernst* & Martin S. Banks Vision Science Program/School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley 94720-2020, USA .............................................................................................................................................. When a person looks at an object while exploring it with their hand, vision and touch both provide information for estimating the properties of the object. Vision frequently dominates the integrated visualhaptic percept, for example when judging size, shape or position13, but in some circumstances the percept is clearly affected by haptics47. Here we propose that a general principle, which minimizes variance in the nal estimate, determines the degree to which vision or haptics dominates. This principle is realized by using maximum-likelihood estimation815 to combine the inputs. To investigate cue combination quantitatively, we rst measured the variances associated with visual and haptic estimation of height. We then used these measurements to construct a maximum-likelihood integrator. This model behaved very similarly to humans in a visualhaptic task. Thus, the nervous system seems to combine visual and haptic information in a fashion that is similar to a maximum-likelihood integrator. Visual dominance occurs when the variance associated with visual estimation is lower than that associated with haptic estimation. The estimate of an environmental property by a sensory system can be represented by Si f i S 1 where S is the physical property being estimated and f is the operation by which the nervous system does the estimation. The subscripts refer to the modality (i could also refer to different cues within a modality). Each estimate, Si , is corrupted by noise. If the noises are independent and gaussian with variance j 2, and the i bayesian prior is uniform, then the maximum-likelihood estimate * Present address: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen 72076, Germany. NATURE | VOL 415 | 24 JANUARY 2002 | www.nature.com 2002 Macmillan Magazines Ltd 429 letters to nature (MLE) of the environmental property is given by 1=j2 i S wi Si with wi i 1=j2 j ^ ^ j 2 Thus, the MLE rule states that the optimal means of estimation (in the sense of producing the lowest-variance estimate) is to add the sensor estimates weighted by their normalized reciprocal variances815. If the MLE rule is used to combine visual and haptic estimates, SV and SH , the variance of the nal (visualhaptic) estimate, S, is j2 j2 j2 2 V H 2 3 VH jV jH Thus, the nal estimate has lower variance than either the visual or the haptic estimator. Implementation of MLE integration is shown for two hypothetical cases in Fig. 1. We examined visualhaptic integration quantitatively to determine whether human performance is optimal. Observers looked at and/or felt a raised ridge (Fig. 2) and judged its height (vertical extent). To work out the predictions of the MLE rule, we rst determined the variances of the visual and haptic height estimates (within-modality) by conducting discrimination experiments. In the haptic-alone experiment, observers indicated which of two sequentially presented ridges was taller from haptic information alone; in the visual-alone experiment, they did the same from visual information alone. There were four conditions in the visual experiment that differed in the amount of noise in the stimulus (see Methods). By adding noise we made the visually specied height less reliable. Visual-alone and haptic-alone discrimination data are shown in Fig. 3a. The proportion of trials in which the observer indicated that the comparison stimulus (variable height) appeared taller than the standard stimulus (xed height of 55 mm) is plotted as a function of the height of the comparison stimulus. The dashed red line and symbols represent the haptic discrimination data, and the solid blue curves with open symbols represent the visual data for the four levels of noise. These psychometric functions were well t by cumulative gaussian functions. The discrimination threshold is dened as the difference between the point of subjective equality (PSE) and the height of the comparison stimulus when it is judged taller than the p standard stimulus 84% of the time. The 84% point corresponds to 2 times the standard deviation of the underlying estimator. The haptic discrimination threshold was roughly 0.085 times the average ridge height (which was 55 mm). As the noise increased from 0 to 200%, the visual discrimination thresholds increased from 0.04 to 0.2 times the average height. Thus, when the visual noise was 0%, the visual discrimination threshold was roughly half the haptic threshold; when the visual noise was 200%, the visual threshold was more than double the haptic threshold. In the visualhaptic experiment, observers simultaneously looked at and felt two raised ridges that were presented sequentially. In one presentation the visually and haptically specied heights were equal (comparison stimulus); in the other presentation they differed (standard stimulus). The difference (D) in the specied heights was 6 6, 6 3 or 0 mm (the average of SH and SV was 55 mm). For each D in the standard stimulus (randomly presented), the height of the comparison stimulus was varied randomly from trial to trial (4763 mm). On each trial, the observer indicated which stimulus seemed taller. Figure 3b shows the proportion of trials in which the comparison stimulus was chosen as taller as a function of the height of the comparison stimulus. From these psychometric functions, we estimated the PSEthe comparison height appearing equal to the standard heightand the just-discriminable change in height (threshold). Using the within-modality data, we can predict what an observer using MLE will do when presented visual and haptic information 2 2 H / V = 1 2 2 H / V = 4 Probability Probability densities Combined Haptic Visual VH H V ^ SH 0.5 wV* 0.5 wH* Psychometric function ^ SV Probability densities Combined Visual Haptic VH V VH H ^ SH 0.8 wV* ^ SV 0.2 wH* Psychometric function Estimated height Proportion `taller' Proportion `taller' 1.00 0.84 PSE 0.50 T VH 1.00 0.84 PSE 0.50 T VH 0 SH S0 = 5.5 cm SV 0 SH S0 = 5.5 cm SV Physical height Figure 1 Maximum-likelihood estimation integration: two hypothetical situations. Visually and haptically specied heights differ by D. Dashed gaussians in the top panels represent probability densities of the (unbiased) estimated height from visual and haptic assessment, and solid gaussians represent probability densities for the combined estimate. On the left, the visual and haptic variances are equal (j2 =j2 1) and both their H V weights are 0.5 (equation (2)). The mean of the combined probability density is therefore equal to the mean of the visual and haptic densities and the variance is reduced by half (equation (3)). If the observer bases judgements of relative height on the combined 430 probability density, the psychometric function would be a cumulative gaussian (bottom left) with a point of subjective equality (PSE) equal to the average of the visual and haptic heights of the standard stimulus. On the right, the haptic variance is four times the visual variance: j2 =j2 4. By equation (2), the visual weight (wV) is 0.8 and the haptic weight H V (wH) is 0.2. Thus, the combined probability density is shifted towards the visual estimate and its variance is 0.8 times the visual variance (equation (3)). Accordingly, the psychometric function should be shifted so that the PSE is closer to the visual height of the standard stimulus. NATURE | VOL 415 | 24 JANUARY 2002 | www.nature.com 2002 Macmillan Magazines Ltd letters to nature simultaneously, and we compare these predictions to the performance in the visualhaptic experiment. First, we describe the analysis of the PSE data and predictions for the weights. From equation (2) and the relationship between threshold and estimator variance: wV j2 T2 H H 4 2 wH jV T 2 V where TH and TV are the haptic and visual thresholds (84% points in Fig. 3a). Incorporating the normalization assumption (wV wH 1), the predicted weights for optimal integration are wV T2 H T T2 H 2 V a CRT Stereo glasses and wH T2 V T T2 H 2 V 5 The predicted visual weights are represented by the curve and shaded surround in Fig. 3c. The predicted weights vary signicantly with the amount of visual noise in the stimulus: the visual weights are higher when the noise level is low, and lower when the noise level is high. Assuming that the visual and haptic estimators are on average unbiased (SV SV and SH SH ), the weights can be derived experimentally: wV PSE 2 SH =SV 2 SH 6 where PSE is the height of the comparison stimulus that matched the apparent height of the standard stimulus. The visually and haptically specied heights in the standard stimulus, SV and SH, are indicated on the right ordinate. Figure 3c shows that as the noise level was increased the visual weight decreased, and the PSE shifted from SV towards SH. Because the noise level varied randomly from trial to trial, the weights must have been set within the 1-s stimulus presentation. Below, we suggest a mechanism for such dynamic weight adjustment. In summary, the predicted and observed PSEs are similar, suggesting that humans do combine visual and haptic information in a fashion similar to MLE integration. According to the MLE rule, the combined estimates should have lower variance, and therefore lower discrimination thresholds, than either the visual or haptic estimate alone (equation (3)). To derive predictions for the visualhaptic discrimination thresholds, we rewrite equation (3): T2 T2 1 1 1 T2 2 V H 2 , 2 2 2 7 VH T VH T V T H TV TH The predicted and observed thresholds are shown in Fig. 3d. The open symbols represent the visual-alone thresholds and the dashed line represents the haptic-alone threshold. The shaded area represents the predicted visualhaptic thresholds; they are always lower than the visual-alone and haptic-alone thresholds at the corresponding noise level. The lled purple symbols represent the observed visualhaptic discrimination thresholds; as noise level increases, the just-noticeable difference in height becomes greater. Most notably, the predicted and observed visualhaptic discrimination thresholds are similar. As with the PSE data, this indicates that human observers may combine visual and haptic information in a manner similar to MLE integration. In summary, we found that height judgements were remarkably similar to those predicted by the MLE integrator. Thus, the nervous system seems to combine visual and haptic information in a fashion similar to the MLE rule: visual and haptic estimates are weighted according to their reciprocal variances (equation (2)). Naturally, it is important to determine whether this rule characterizes the estimation other of stimulus properties such as shape, depth, localization, roughness or compliance. The relative contributions of vision and haptics to perceiving such object properties have been studied previously. For example, subjects have grasped a square while looking at it through a distorting lens that made it appear rectangular1. The shape of the unied percept was determined almost completely by vision, so the phenomenon was called `visual capture'. Numerous studies have NATURE | VOL 415 | 24 JANUARY 2002 | www.nature.com Opaque mirror Forcefeedback devices h idt W Visual and haptic scene Noise: 3 cm equals 100% 3-c ep md th s tep ht eig al h Visu ht eig ic h apt H b Right eye's image Left eye's image Figure 2 Apparatus and stimuli. a, Observers viewed the reection of the visual stimulus, presented on a cathode ray tube (CRT) binocularly in a mirror. CrystalEyes (StereoGraphics) liquid-crystal shutter glasses were used to present binocular disparity. The surfaces of the stimuli were perpendicular to the line of sight. A head and chin rest limited head movements. The right hand was beneath the mirror and could not be seen. The haptic stimulus was presented with two PHANToM force-feedback devices, one each for the index nger and thumb. b, Stereograms representative of visual stimuli, which should be viewed by cross-fusing. Top row, stereogram has no noise and the horizontal bar is raised above the background. Bottom row, stereogram of bar and background contains noise, with random displacements of dots parallel to the line of sight. 431 2002 Macmillan Magazines Ltd With noise Without noise letters to nature replicated visual capture in shape and size perception3,16,17, depth perception18 and localization2,1921. But visual capture does not occur in the perception of surface roughness6,22; instead, perceived roughness is affected nearly equally by haptics and vision. Does a dynamic cue-combination rule, such as the one described here, determine the degree to which vision or haptics dominates? The statistically optimal means of combining visual and haptic informationthe MLE rulepredicts that visual capture should occur whenever the visual estimate of a property has much less variance than that of the haptic estimate. Haptic capture should be observed when the reverse occurs. We observed behaviour like visual capture when the visual stimulus was noise-free, and behaviour similar to haptic capture when the visual stimulus was quite noisy (Fig. 3c). In visualhaptic tasks, the MLE integrator described here always uses information from both sensory systems, so the combined percept will always reect both sources of information. Different behaviour may be observed when the discrepancy between two information sources is large. With large discrepancies between information sources, the nervous system may exhibit robust behaviour10 in which a discrepant source is discounted9,23. In robust estimation, the weights associated with different information sources are determined by more than the variances of the sensory estimators; they are also determined by the discrepancy between their estimates. In our experiments, the differences between the visually and haptically specied stimuli were never greater than 11%, and the visualhaptic data always exhibited an inuence of both sensory systems. If the differences had been larger, we might a Proportion of trials perceived as 'taller' 1.00 Haptic 0.75 Visual 0% 67% 133% 200% Noise level have observed discounting of one sense. It would be interesting to know whether such vetoing occurs when observers become aware of the conict between visual and haptic inputs. If the nervous system implements MLE integration, the weights must be proportional to the reciprocal variances of the probability densities associated with the visual and haptic estimates of the environmental property in question (equation (2) and Fig. 1). Of course, the variances change from one object property to the next (such as size, shape or roughness) and from one situation to another (for example, visual variance increases as the lighting is degraded). Does the nervous system need to calculate or learn the variances associated with the visual and haptic estimators for each property and situation to implement MLE integration? Although explicit calculation or learning may occur24, there are plausible schemes in which explicit calculation of variances or weights is unnecessary. Consider, for example, a population of visual and haptic neurons, each sensitive to a range of heights. Each neuron has a preferred height but also responds to other heights (that is, each neuron has a tuning function). If the visual input species the height clearly (that is, high contrast, noise-free, and so on), then the visual neurons preferring that height respond vigorously and those preferring other heights respond less, and the distribution of response across the population of visual neurons has a well dened peak. Assume that the distribution across the population of haptic neurons has a less well dened peak. Multiplication of these two distributions (pointby-point multiplication where the two populations are in registration according to the stimulus property being estimated)25 yields a b Proportion of trials perceived as 'taller' 1.00 Visualhaptic discrimination (normalized across ) Noise level Within-modality discrimination Visualhaptic 0% 67% 133% 0.75 200% 0.50 0.50 0.25 Standard 0 50 55 60 Comparison height (mm) Weights (PSEs) 1.0 0 Visualhaptic Predicted Empirical 'Visual capture' 0.25 n=4 0 45 55 SH SV Normalized comparison height (mm) Discrimination thresholds 65 c SV d 0.24 0.20 Threshold 0.16 0.12 0.08 0.04 0.8 0.2 Haptic weight Visual weight 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.8 0 1.0 Haptic (empirical) Visual (empirical) Visualhaptic (predicted) Visualhaptic (empirical) PSE SH 'Haptic capture' 0 67 133 Noise level (%) 200 0 0 67 133 Noise level (%) 200 Figure 3 Predictions and experimental data. a, Within-modality discrimination. Proportion of trials in which a comparison was perceived as taller than the standard stimulus is plotted against the height of the comparison stimulus. Data were averaged for observers. Height of the standard stimulus was 55 mm. Haptic discrimination data are represented by red crosses and the dashed curve (best-tting cumulative gaussian); visual discrimination data are represented by blue curves, which correspond to four noise levels. b, Visualhaptic discrimination. The average height of visualhaptic standard stimulus was 55 mm; the height difference, D, varied from -6 to +6 mm. To plot the data on the same coordinates, the psychometric functions for each D were shifted laterally by w VD/2 (w V is obtained from the regression of PSE against D). Purple curves represent the different visual noise levels. c, Weights and PSEs. Abscissa represents the noise level, left 432 ordinate represents visual weight (w V; haptic weight is 1 - w V) and right ordinate represents the PSEs relative to S V and S H. Purple symbols represent observed visual weights obtained from regression analysis of PSEs (equation 6) across D. Shaded area represents predicted weights expected from within-modality discrimination (a; equation (5)); its height represents predicted errors given the standard errors of the within-modality discrimination. d, Combined and within-modality discrimination thresholds. Justnoticeable differences in height are plotted against noise level. Thresholds are taken from psychometric functions in a and b. Dashed red line represents haptic-alone threshold; open blue symbols represent visual-alone thresholds; lled purple symbols represent combined visualhaptic thresholds. Shaded area represents predicted visualhaptic thresholds (equation (7)). 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STAT309 DISCUSSION 11 TA: Min Niu E-mail: niu@stat.wisc.edu Office Hour: 1:00pm-2:00pm Tuesday & 5:30pm-6:30pm Thursday Location:Room B248 MSC Homepage:http:/www.stat.wisc.edu/ niu/stat309.html 1. Basic Concepts Let X and Y be discrete random variabl
Wisconsin - STAT - 3092006
STAT309 DISCUSSION 12 TA: Min Niu E-mail: niu@stat.wisc.edu Office Hour: 1:00pm-2:00pm Tuesday & 5:30pm-6:30pm Thursday Location:Room B248 MSC Homepage:http:/www.stat.wisc.edu/ niu/stat309.html 1. Basic Concepts A sampling distribution is the distrib
Wisconsin - STAT - 3092006
STAT309 SOLUTION 6 2.6.2 Let h(x) = cx+d. Then Y = h(X) and h is strictly decreasing, so fY (y) = fX (h-1 (y)/|h (h-1 (y)| = fX (y - d)/c)/|c|, which equals 1/(R - L)|c| = 1/(cL - cR) for L (y - d)/c R, i.e., cR + d y cL + d, otherwise equals 0.
Wisconsin - STAT - 3092006
STAT309 SOLUTION 9 3.3.2 (a) E(X)=(5)(1/7)+(5)(1/7)+(5)(1/7)+(8)(3/7)+(8)(1/7)=47/7. Also, E(Y )=(0)(1/7)+(3)(1/7)+(4)(1/7)+(0)(3/7)+(4)(1/7)=11/7. (b) E(XY )=(5)(0)(1/7)+(5)(3)(1/7)+(5)(4)(1/7)+(8)(0)(3/7)+(8)(4)(1/7)=67/7. Then Cov(X, Y ) = E(XY )
Wisconsin - STAT - 3092006
STAT309 SOLUTION 11 4.1.1 P (Y3 = 1)=(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)=1/8 P (Y3 = 2)=(1/4)(1/4)(1/4)=1/64 P (Y3 = 3)=(1/4)(1/4)(1/4)=1/64 P (Y3 = 21/3 )=(1/2)(1/2)(1/4)+(1/2)(1/4)(1/2)+(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)=3/16 P (Y3 = 31/3 )=(1/2)(1/2)(1/4)+(1/2)(1/4)(1/2)+(1/4)(1/2)(1/2
Wisconsin - STAT - 3092006
STAT309 SOLUTION 13 4.4.1 Here limn P (Xn = i) = 1/3 = P (X = i) for i=1,2,3, so limn P (Xn x) = P (X x) for all x, so Xn X in distribution. 4.4.4 For 0 < w < 1, P (Wn w) = 0 (1 + x/n)/(1 + 1/2n)dx = (w + w2 /2n)/(1 + 1/2n) w as n . Also, P (W
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