Digital Signal Processing Reference
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The relation presented in (
2.167
) can be expressed in terms of the corresponding
density functions (see (
2.64
)), knowing that d
x
is an infinitesimal value,
Pfx
1
<X x
1
þ
d
xg¼f
X
ðx
1
Þ
d
x;
Pfx
2
d
x <X x
2
g¼Pfx
2
<X x
2
þ
d
xg¼f
X
ðx
2
Þ
d
x:
(2.168)
From (
2.167
) and (
2.168
), we have:
f
Y
ðyÞ
d
y ¼ f
X
ðx
1
Þ
d
x þ f
X
ðx
2
Þ
d
x:
(2.169)
From here, we arrive at:
f
X
ðx
1
Þ
d
d
x
ðx
1
Þ
f
X
ðx
2
Þ
d
d
x
ðx
2
Þ
f
Y
ðyÞ¼
þ
:
(2.170)
Next, the right side of (
2.170
) is expressed in terms of
y
, resulting in:
x
1
¼g
1
ðyÞ
x
2
¼g
1
f
X
ðx
1
Þ
d
d
x
ðx
1
Þ
f
X
ðx
2
Þ
d
d
x
ðx
2
Þ
f
Y
ðyÞ¼
þ
;
(2.171)
ðyÞ
where
x
1
and
x
2
are the solutions of (
2.164
).
For the values of
y
, for which (
2.164
) does not have the real solutions, it follows:
f
Y
ðyÞ¼
0
:
(2.172)
The results of (
2.171
) and (
2.172
) can be generalized to include a case in which
(
2.164
) has
N
real solutions
x
i
¼g
1
ðyÞ;i¼
1
;:::;N
f
Y
ðyÞ¼
X
N
f
X
ðx
i
Þ
d
y
d
x
ðx
i
Þ
:
(2.173)
i¼
1
Example 2.6.6
Find the PDF for the random variable
Y
, which is obtained by
squaring the random variable
X
,
Y ¼ X
2
:
(2.174)
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