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A coin is flipped. If the outcome is heads you draw a number form a Gaussian distribution with mean 0 and variance 1. If the outcome is tails you draw a number from a uniform [0,1] distribution. What is the mean and variance of the distribution for the number you will generate?

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A coin is flipped. If the outcome is a head you draw a number form a Gaussian
distribution with mean 0 and variance 1. If the outcome is tail you draw a number from a uniform [0,1] distribution. What is the mean and variance of the distribution for ...

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