Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!cab From: cab@allegra.UUCP (Carol Beck) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Please help: probability problem Message-ID: <2811@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 15:34:56 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2811 Posted: Thu Sep 27 15:34:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:20:20 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 Probability is not my forte, and I'm stuck on what seems like a simple problem. Here goes. I've derived a probability density function for a continuous random variable, t, where t is the time duration of some event. What I need is the probability density function of the random variable which is the maximum time duration of n events. (i.e. I start n events at the same time. What is the pdf of the time at which the last of these n events completes?) Is there some insight I'm missing that makes this intuitively obvious? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks, Carol Beck allegra!cab