Paper 1, Section II,
(a) Give the definition of a Poisson process with rate , using its transition rates. Show that for each , the distribution of is Poisson with a parameter to be specified.
Let and let denote the jump times of . What is the distribution of (You do not need to justify your answer.)
(b) Let . Compute the joint probability density function of given . Deduce that, given has the same distribution as the nondecreasing rearrangement of independent uniform random variables on .
(c) Starting from time 0, passengers arrive on platform at King's Cross station, with constant rate , in order to catch a train due to depart at time . Using the above results, or otherwise, find the expected total time waited by all passengers (the sum of all passengers' waiting times).