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Mixture of Poisson

The following is a mixture model. The following experiment is used to draw a random variable \(Y\). With probability \(p\)  draw from a Poisson distribution with parameter \(\lambda = 1\) so with probability \(1-p\) you are drawing from a Poisson distribution with parameter \(\lambda =2 \).

What is \(\mathbf{E}(Y)\) ?

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