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&nbsp;<font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><math>\color{blue} \text{ Consider the optimization problem, }</math></span></font>  
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&nbsp;<font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><math>\color{blue}\text{ Let X, Y, and Z be three jointly distributed random variables with joint pdf} f_{XYZ}\left ( x,y,z \right )= \frac{3z^{2}}{7\sqrt[]{2\pi}}e^{-zy} exp \left [ -\frac{1}{2}\left ( \frac{x-y}{z}\right )^{2} \right ] \cdot 1_{\left[0,\infty \right )}\left(y \right )\cdot1_{\left[1,2 \right]} \left ( z \right) </math></span></font>  
  
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<math>\text{maximize} -x_{1}^{2}+x_{1}-x_{2}-x_{1}x_{2}</math>  
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'''<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{a} \right) \text{ Find the joint probability density function } f_{YZ}(y,z).</math>'''<br>  
  
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<math>\text{subject to  }   x_{1}\geq0, x_{2}\geq0</math><font color="#ff0000" face="serif" size="4"><br></font>  
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<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{b} \right) \text{Find}  
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f_{x}\left( x|y,z\right ).
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'''<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{i} \right) \text{ Characterize feasible directions at the point } x^{*}=\left[ \begin{array}{c} \frac{1}{2} \\ 0 \end{array} \right]</math>'''<br>  
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<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{c} \right) \text{Find}  
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f_{Z}\left( z\right ).
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<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{d} \right) \text{Find}  
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f_{Y}\left(y|z \right ).
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<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{e} \right) \text{Find}
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f_{XY}\left(x,y|z \right ).
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<math>\color{blue}\left( \text{ii} \right) \text{Write down the second-order necessary condition for } x^{*} \text{. Does the point } x^{*} \text{ satisfy this condition?}</math><br>
 
  
 
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&nbsp;<font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><math>\color{blue}  \text{ Use the simplex method to solve the problem, }</math></span></font>
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&nbsp;<font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><math>\color{blue}  \text{Show that if a continuous-time Gaussian random process } \mathbf{X}(t) \text{ is wide-sense stationary, it is also strict-sense stationary.}
 
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="texhtml">maximize &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;''x''<sub>1</sub> + ''x''<sub>2</sub></span>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<math>\text{subject to  }   x_{1}-x_{2}\leq2</math><font color="#ff0000" face="serif" size="4"><br></font>'''&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<math>x_{1}+x_{2}\leq6</math>''' &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
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ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Communication Networks Signal and Image processing (CS), Question 1, August 2011


Question

Part 1. 25 pts


 $ \color{blue}\text{ Let X, Y, and Z be three jointly distributed random variables with joint pdf} f_{XYZ}\left ( x,y,z \right )= \frac{3z^{2}}{7\sqrt[]{2\pi}}e^{-zy} exp \left [ -\frac{1}{2}\left ( \frac{x-y}{z}\right )^{2} \right ] \cdot 1_{\left[0,\infty \right )}\left(y \right )\cdot1_{\left[1,2 \right]} \left ( z \right) $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{a} \right) \text{ Find the joint probability density function } f_{YZ}(y,z). $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{b} \right) \text{Find} f_{x}\left( x|y,z\right ). $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{c} \right) \text{Find} f_{Z}\left( z\right ). $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{d} \right) \text{Find} f_{Y}\left(y|z \right ). $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{e} \right) \text{Find} f_{XY}\left(x,y|z \right ). $


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Part 2.


 $ \color{blue} \text{Show that if a continuous-time Gaussian random process } \mathbf{X}(t) \text{ is wide-sense stationary, it is also strict-sense stationary.} $


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