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Originally Posted by dingdong  Consider a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials, each with success probability p. Let X1 be the number of failures preceding the first seccess, and let X2 be the number of failures between the first two successes. Find the joint density of <X1,X2>.(note: X1 and X2 are called "waiting times") (p.313 #7 from first course in probability_Ross) | Asked by another member and replied to: A First Course in Probability(Ross, Question from CH6)
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