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Properties of the Expected Value

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This video explores several important properties of the expected value of a random variable. For example, the expected value of the product of two independent random variables is the product of their individual expected values.

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
00:58 Expectation of Sums
02:05 Expectation of Independent Products
03:13 Expectation of a Function of X
05:48 Deriving Independent Product Property
08:50 Outro