475.When the Sequence Stops Falling
★★★expected valueCh. 6 — Random Variables and Expectation444+ Problems in Probability
Let be IID with a continuous distribution, and let be the first index such that but — the time the sequence first stops decreasing. Find .
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Compute — it only depends on the relative order of the first values.
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