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Q129Section III (Statistics)129 of 180

A symmetry argument for the conditional mean of an exponential split

Suppose that X1X_1 and X2X_2 are independent and identically distributed random variables such that X1X_1 has exponential distribution with scale parameter 1/λ1/\lambda. Let S1=X1, S2=X1+X2S_1=X_1,\ S_2=X_1+X_2. Then, which of the following statements is true?

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