Expectation value and Variance
Defintion of Expectation
Expected Value(
) to denote that this is an average(or mean) for a random variable$$E(X)=x_{i} p_{i}$$
Wherais value of outcome and is the probability of outcome
Calculation rules
Definition of Variance
Like what it called, variance(
) measures the variability during the process and in probability with formula$$Var(X)=E[(X-\mu)^{2}]= E(X^{2})-\mu^{2}=\sum (x_i)^2p_{i}-\mu^2$$
Calculation rules
We need to assume X and Y are independent of each other
- Addition :
- Substract:
- scalar multiplcation