sums of discrete uniform random variables
- From: quasi <quasi@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:08:38 -0500
Let X_1, X_2, X_3, ... be independent, identically distributed random
variables, each uniformly distributed on the set {0,..., n-1}. In
other words, each X_i is uniformly distributed mod n.
Prove or disprove:
(X_1 + ... + X_k) mod m is uniformly distributed mod m iff m|n.
quasi
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