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PDF of a sum of exponential random variables Let $X_i$ for $i=1,2,...$ be a sequence of i.i.d exponential random variables with common parameter $\lambda$. Let $N$ be a geometric random variable with parameter $p$ that is independent of the sequence $X_i$. What is the pdf of the random variable $Y=\Sigma_{i=1}^N X_i$. Is it okay to use Stack Overflow as the support forum for a product or project? Bonferroni adjustment in SPSS - what does it do? I'm probably being a bit simplistic here, but from what I understand the Bonferroni post hoc test is simply when we adjust the alpha to account for inflated error when several post hoc tests are conducted. You divide the alpha by number of tests. So what exactly does SPSS do when we click the button for Bonferroni?   Shouldn't the dividing of alpha be done by us in interpreting the result, e.g. if we do 10 post hoc tests our alpha criterion should be .005 so if the p value is .012 then it is not significant, but SPSS hasn't done anything there, we have just changed our interpretation. So what exactly is it adjusting? Where does matter go after reaching singularity in uncharged black holes? I am a layman in physics and just read about black holes on the internet. I read that matter encounters geodesic incompleteness in the singularity in an uncharged black hole.  I heard an analogy of geodesic incompleteness as a straight line on a paper reach a hole on the paper, so it cannot continue. But in this analogy, isn't the straight line possible to continue into 3D (continue down the paper)? So, if matter reaches the singularity, is it possible too (to reach another dimension)?   I also heard that the matter is annihilated when reaching the singularity, does it mean it disappear from this world, and violates conservation of energy? Last Logon Time of All Users - RDP server not on a domain How to calculate the exact probability that the second player wins? Consider a game that uses a generator which produces independent random integers between 1 and 100 inclusive. The game starts with a sum S = 0. The first player adds random numbers from the generator to S until S > 100 and records her last random number 'x'. The second player, continues adding random numbers from the generator to S until S > 200 and records her last random number 'y'. The player with the highest number wins, i.e. if y > x the second player wins. Is this game fair? Write a program to simulate 100,000 games. What is the probability estimate, based on your simulations, that the second player wins? Give your answer rounded to 3 places behind the decimal. For extra credit, calculate the exact probability (without sampling).     import random  CONST_TIMES = 100000 CONST_SMALL = 100 CONST_LARGE = 200  def playGame():     s = 0     while s &lt;= CONST_SMALL:          x = random.randint(1, CONST_SMALL)         s = s + x;     while s &lt;= CONST_LARGE:         y = random.randint(1, CONST_SMALL)         s = s + y     if x &lt; y:         return 's'     elif x == y:         return 'm'     else:         return 'f'  fst = sec = 0 for i in range(CONST_TIMES):     winner = playGame()     if winner == 'f':         fst = fst + 1     elif winner == 's':         sec = sec + 1 secWinPro = round(float(sec) / CONST_TIMES, 3)  print secWinPro   The simulation probability is about 0.524. I want to know how to calculate the exact probability. I'm writing a shell script for Linux, using Bash, to translate any video-file into a MP4. For that, I'm using avconv with libvorbis for audio.   Inside my script, I have a question for the user :   read -p "- Audio Quality [scale from -2 to 10] ? "     if [ -n "$REPLY" ] ; then     ABITRATE="-aq $REPLY"     fi   My "ABITRATE" string goes into the final avconv command-line.  But I would like to give the user the opportunity to answer that question with a value in Kb (Kilobit), and translate it into the scale that libvorbis uses. The "scale from -2 to 10" is this :   Quality Kbit/s  Normalization -----------------------------  -2      ~32        y  -1      ~48        y   0      ~64        y   1      ~80        y   2      ~96        y   3     ~112        y   4     ~128        n   5     ~160        n   6     ~192        n   7     ~224        n   8     ~256        n   9     ~320        n  10     ~500        n   I would like to know how to check if my $REPLY is in a range of number. For example, I would like my script to do something like this :   if [ $REPLY is a number between 1 and 32 ] ; then   REPLY="-2" elif [ $REPLY is a number between 33 and 48 ] ; then   REPLY="-1" fi   Is this possible (I'm willing to say 'yes of course, shouldn't be hard' but I don't know the syntax to use) ? What is the difference between == and === in php. I am unsure when to use both.  Updated note: So that it shows up in StackOverflow search, the difference between == and === is the same as the difference between != and !==. I installed blender for the first time, so I have the latest version, 2.78c.  I played with it for a bit.  Then I discovered I couldn't save my work.  I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.  Rebooted.  Same problem.  After a little testing, I realized I CAN save to my NAS storage drive.  I cannot save on my C: drive.  Any project.  Any folder.  C: always fails.  If I run blender as Administrator, it will save to the C: drive.  But not as my normal userid.  So it sounds like a bug of some kind.  I am running Windows 10.  Bitdefender A/V.  I use OneDrive.  I have a 2TB drive installed.  All clean and purring nicely.  Is there a better way to install it?  Or some change I can make (other than always running as administrator)?    Sounds like a bug - but hopefully there's a proper solution.  Thanks,  Jerry Is there a way to check that the conditions on your plane ticket are actually what your travel agent said they are? PHP considers null is equal to zero C# Mono - Low Level Keyboard Hook "All sites" overview should not require scrolling when selecting a site Installing "firmware-b43-installer" offline How can I install firmware-b43-installer driver if I can't connect to internet by wire? Cannot install WPS Office I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and was trying to install WPS Office. I tried to install using software centre But it wasn't installing without giving any error logs. Then I opened it with Gdebi installer. Here is what I saw.    I have already trying enabling multiverse repositories.  Edit: I have downloaded the amd64 package from the WPS official site, but even now installing through terminal I still get the missing dependencies error. I'm having trouble with the OpenLayers Plugin of Qgis and the map composer:  If I create an OSM-background layer and if I want to export this, the OSM-Layer looks perfectly all right in the normal qgis program window. But in the map composer and after export the layer has shifted relatively to my other shape layers (EPSG:32633 - WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N).  The second thing is that the output resolution of the exported osm-layer is very, very poor.   A really bad way of getting around this whole trouble would be to increase the screen resolution and make a screenshot of the map composition window of qgis. But I don't think this would be very professional. It also would cause a lot of pain :)   I'm using Qgis 1.8.0-Lisboa under Linux. The openlayers plugin is version 0.92. JSF convertDateTime renders the previous day Why do we make a distinction between derivatives and partial derivatives? Discoveryd Alternative to Replace mDNSResponder Argument? This is a direct follow-on to . , I'd add the "-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains" argument to the mDNSResponder plist file so that all local resolver lookups added the search domains, regardless of whether there was a period in the label to be looked up. For example, whether I try to ssh to hostname foo.bar or foo, the search domain of baz.com should be tried, not only for the latter case, as was (and is) the default behavior.   Now, it looks like the mDNSResponder is gone, replaced with discoveryd. I cannot find a similar option to get it to always appending the search domain. Suggestions? I'd rather not go the route of using a non-default local resolver, but I'd consider it as an option. For now, I'll just type in the long FQDNs, but I'd really rather not.  Thanks, Pete I have a collection of files and directories with strange names, they contain spaces and the special characters \, *, ), ( and ?. All of them cause problems when I try to use them in the command line or scripts, e.g.:    $ cd space dir bash: cd: space: No such file or directory  $ cat space file cat: space: No such file or directory cat: file: No such file or directory  $ cat ( bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'  $ echo content &gt;\ &gt; ^C  $ ls ? (  )  *  ?  \   How do I enter file or directory names that contain special characters in the terminal?