Andrew Rubin
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I am trying to understand an application of integration in probability. Specifically, example 5 in Adams & Essex, Calculus: A Complete Course (9th ed.), p. 441-442.
The example is an application of integration to the exponential distribution:
I get stuck at:
I don't understand the steps involved in the authors use of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to arrive at their results here, and they don't explain them either. I have tried reviewing the theorem without any luck. Could someone help me out?
The example is an application of integration to the exponential distribution:
I get stuck at:
Differentiating this equation with respect to t (using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus), we obtain ...
I don't understand the steps involved in the authors use of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to arrive at their results here, and they don't explain them either. I have tried reviewing the theorem without any luck. Could someone help me out?