Value-at-Risk Theory and Practice

Chapter 1, Page 21
Exercise 4

In our example of the deaths per passenger-mile risk metric, for what random variable’s probability distribution may we interpret it as reflecting a mean?

 

Solution

The random variable is the number of deaths that occur in a planned passenger-mile. The random variable can take on the values 0 or 1.
 

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