Probability density function:

Cumulative distribution function:

Mean and variance:

Median:

Generate a sample of pseudorandom numbers from an exponential distribution:

Compare its histogram to the PDF:

Distribution parameters estimation:

Estimate the distribution parameters from sample data:

Compare the density histogram of the sample with the PDF of the estimated distribution:

Skewness and kurtosis are constant:

Different moments with closed forms as functions of parameters:

Moment:

Closed form for symbolic order:

CentralMoment:

Closed form for symbolic order:

FactorialMoment:

Cumulant:

Closed form for symbolic order:

Hazard function of exponential distribution is constant and depends on the parameter λ:

Quantile function:

Consistent use of Quantity in parameters yields QuantityDistribution:

Convert to days:

Find the median service time:

A battery has a lifespan that is exponentially distributed with rate parameter per hour. Find the probability that a random battery has a lifespan of less than 2500 hours:

Compute directly using the CDF:

A relay has an exponentially distributed lifetime with a failure rate of failures per year. In order to estimate warranty costs, estimate the number of relays out of 10000 that will fail in the first six months of use. The failure rate is also known as the hazard rate:

Hence the lifetime distribution (in years) for relays is:

The probability of failure within the first six months:

The expected number of failures within the first six months in the batch of 10000 relays:

A product has a time to failure that is exponentially distributed with parameter . Find the product's reliability at 1, 2, and 3 years. Reliability is another name for SurvivalFunction:

The product's failure rate:

Suppose the lifetime of an appliance has an exponential distribution with average lifetime of 10 years. Find the appliance lifetime distribution:

Find the probability that a used appliance with years of use will not fail in the next 5 years:

Using the memoryless property of ExponentialDistribution:

Assume the waiting time a customer spends in a restaurant is exponentially distributed with an average wait time of 5 minutes. Find the probability that the customer will have to wait more than 10 minutes:

Find the probability that the customer has to wait an additional 10 minutes, given that he or she has already been waiting for at least 10 minutes (the past does not matter):

The data contains waiting times in days between serious (magnitude at least 7.5 or over 1000 fatalities) earthquakes worldwide, recorded from 12/16/1902 to 3/4/1977:

Fit ExponentialDistribution to the data:

Compare the histogram of the data with the PDF of the estimated distribution:

Find the average number of days between major earthquakes:

Find the probability that two serious earthquakes occur within 100 days:

Simulate times between the next 30 serious earthquakes occurring worldwide:

Waiting times at a receiver for signals coming from four independent transmitters are exponentially distributed with parameters , , , and , respectively. Find the probability that the signal from the third transmitter arrives first to the receiver:

Find the distribution of the waiting time for any signal at the receiver:

Find the average waiting time for any signal at the receiver:

Simulate the waiting time between signals arriving at the receiver for , , , and :

A system is composed of 4 independent components, each with lifespan exponentially distributed with parameter per hour. Find the probability that no component fails before 500 hours:

Directly use SurvivalFunction:

Find the probability that exactly one component will fail in the first 1200 hours:

Directly use CDF and SurvivalFunction:

By using BooleanCountingFunction, you can also define the logical condition:

In an optical communication system, transmitted light generates current at the receiver. The number of electrons follows the parametric mixture of Poisson distribution and other distributions, depending on the type of light. If the source uses coherent laser light of intensity λ, then the electron count distribution is Poisson:

Which is PoissonDistribution:

If the source uses thermal illumination, then the Poisson parameter follows ExponentialDistribution with parameter and the electron count distribution is:

These two distributions are distinguishable and allow the type of source to be determined:

Exponential distribution is closed under scaling by a positive factor:

The variance is the square of the mean:

The minimum of exponential distributions is exponentially distributed:

The minimum of identically distributed variables:

The exponential distribution is memoryless (the past does not matter):

Relationships to other distributions:

BenktanderWeibullDistribution reduces to a truncated ExponentialDistribution:

Shifted ExponentialDistribution is a BenktanderWeibullDistribution:

Exponential distribution is a limit of a scaled BetaDistribution:

PowerDistribution is a transformation of an exponential distribution:

Exponential distribution can be obtained from PowerDistribution:

Exponential distribution can be obtained from BetaDistribution:

Sum of independent exponentially distributed random variables follows ErlangDistribution:

For an arbitrary number of variables:

ExponentialDistribution[1] can be transformed into an extreme value distributions family:

ExponentialDistribution is a special case of WeibullDistribution:

ExponentialDistribution is a special case of GammaDistribution:

The difference of two variates from the same exponential distribution follows LaplaceDistribution:

The difference of two different exponential distributions follows VarianceGammaDistribution:

Exponential distribution is a transformation of LaplaceDistribution:

LogisticDistribution is a transformation from exponential distribution:

LogisticDistribution is a transformation of exponential distribution:

ParetoDistribution is a transformation of exponential distribution:

Transformation of a ParetoDistribution yields an exponential distribution:

Exponential distribution is a special case of type 3 PearsonDistribution:

PowerDistribution is a transformation of exponential distribution:

Exponential distribution can be obtained from RayleighDistribution:

Exponential distribution is the limiting distribution of the where has UniformDistribution:

The parametric mixture of PoissonDistribution and exponential distribution follows GeometricDistribution:

KDistribution can be obtained from ExponentialDistribution and GammaDistribution:

HoytDistribution can be obtained from ExponentialDistribution and ArcSinDistribution:

ParetoDistribution can be obtained as a quotient of ExponentialDistribution and ErlangDistribution:

ParetoDistribution can be obtained as a quotient of ExponentialDistribution and GammaDistribution:

ExponentialDistribution is not defined when λ is not a positive real number:

Substitution of invalid parameters into symbolic outputs gives results that are not meaningful:

PDFs for different λ values with CDF contours: