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  1. I did read the entire section. Now that I'm getting some of the other distributions under my belt, this section didn't seem as bad. I think I understood the multivariate pmf, but the cmf and pdf went a little over my head. And the covariance I got, but am just a little confused on how to calculate. I think after seeing some concrete examples (if that's possible) worked through, it'll click.
  2. Maybe not a super deep connection, but this reminded me of Markov chains we just did in a lab (it's probably supposed to). I'm curious at the relationship the transition matrices in it have with this multivariate random variables.

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