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Q&A High-Probability Lower Bound for Sums of Conditional Probabilities in IID Sequences on the Unit Sphere

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Alex de Ruijter‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Alex de Ruijter‭

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70%
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Q&A Probability that six random numbers between 0 and 1 are the lengths of a tetrahedron's edges

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by JRN‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by JRN‭

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42%
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Q&A Search & Probability

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Hudjefa‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Strange behavior in elections and pie charts

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TheCodidacter, or rather ACodidacter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Hudjefa‭

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33%
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Q&A 25% probability that there was a chance of avoiding injury $\quad$ vs. $\quad$ 25% chance of avoiding injury

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Hudjefa‭

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Q&A What is the probability that the convex hull of $n$ randomly distributed points has $l$ of the points on its boundary?

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by siric‭  ·  edited 2y ago by tommi‭

Question probability convex-hull
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Q&A How to intuit p = Calvin's probability of winning each game independently = $1/2 \implies$ P(Calvin wins the match) = 1/2?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by viäränlaenen‭

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Q&A Why does the Dottie number $=\sqrt{1-\left(2\text I^{-1}_\frac12\left(\frac12,\frac32\right)-1\right)^2}$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Tyma Gaidash‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Tyma Gaidash‭

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Q&A Why 1. multiply the number of independent options? 2. add the number of exclusive options?

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Tim Pederick‭

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33%
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Q&A Out of 4 people, why does ways to choose a 2-person committee overcount by 2 the ways to divide the 4 into 2 teams of 2?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Tim Pederick‭

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Q&A Why's Pr(the running total of a fair dice rolled repeatedly = n) = $\frac16 (p_{n-1} + p_{n-2} + p_{n-3} + p_{n-4} + p_{n-5} + p_{n-6})$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Why's a 2-player game with "win by two" rule = Gambler's Ruin where each player starts with $2? Why N = 4?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A If C = Calvin wins the match, and $X \thicksim Bin(2, p) =$ how many of the first 2 games he wins — then why P(C|X = 1) = P(C)?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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33%
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Q&A Intuitively, why does $p$ vary inversely with $P(C_3 \mid D_2)$? But directly with $P(C_2 \mid D_3)$?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by whybecause‭

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Q&A "the people who move have a percentage of Democrats which is between these two values" — How does this furnish intuition for Simpson's Paradox?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A For (a variation) of the Monty Hall problem, what permits you to repaint doors 2 and 3? What permits you to replace p with $1 - p$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Without calculations, how can you visualize "that half the squares are white and half are black"?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by whybecause‭

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Q&A In general, does $\color{forestgreen}{P(A|M)} + \color{red}{P(B|M)} = 1$?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by whybecause‭

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Q&A Acceptable, usual to write $\ge 2$ pipes simultaneously?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A How does $P(C > D \mid C = 2) \neq P(C > D \mid C \neq 2)$ prove that B > C depends on C > D?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Probability of students given there are groups

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Pranav_M99‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A If A & B are joint, can Arby recoup some of his loss only when $P_{Arby}(A \cup B) < P_{Arby}(A) + P_{Arby}(B)$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A If Alice must've have classes on at least 2 days, why do you need the intersection of 3 $A_i^C$'s? [closed]

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How would you vaticinate to $-w_k$ from both sides of $w_{k + 1} = \dfrac{w_k - (1 - p)w_{k - 1}}{p}$?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Giannis‭

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Q&A Which vertical line signifies "putting the cutoff for a positive result at a very low level"?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Why's the true positive rate termed Sensitivity and true negative rate Specificity, not vice versa? [closed]

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Why aren't the "21 possibilities here" NOT equally likely?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Wolgwang‭

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Q&A How can I visualize the Law of Total Probability with extra conditioning?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Wolgwang‭

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Q&A How do you calculate $P(X = n|G), P(X = n|G^C)$ by the Law of Total Probability, with extra conditioning?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Wolgwang‭

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Q&A Why $\color{red}{k\dbinom{k}{1}} \neq$ "first choose the k team members and then choose one of time to be captain"?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Wolgwang‭

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Q&A Does "both girls, ≥ 1 winter girl" = "both girls, ≥ 1 winter child" let you generalize the problem statement that postulated both children as girls?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How would you intuit, and soothsay to rewrite, "both girls, ≥ 1 winter girl" as "both girls, ≥ 1 winter child"?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How do I prove Simpson's Paradox, scilicet $P(A|B) > P(A|B^C)$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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28%
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Q&A After $n - 2$ unchosen doors are opened, how does the probability of the $n - 2$ unchosen doors "shift" or "transfer" to the lone unchosen door?

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Why would skyrocketing the numbers of doors help laypeople intuit the Monty Hall Problem?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Besides guaranteeing 0 ≤ P(A ∩ B) ≤ 1, why can't Independence be defined as P(A ∩ B) = P(A) +,-, or ÷ P(B)?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A In $w_{k + 1} - w_k = (\frac{1 - p}{p})^{exponent}(w_1 - w_0)$, why isn't exponent $k + 1$?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by leovt‭

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Q&A Why "only 1/10,000 men with wives they abuse subsequently murder them" ≠ P(A|G,M) & "50% of husbands who murder their wives abused them” ≠ P(G|A)?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How can I exploit symmetry to intuit P(A wins) + P(B wins) = 1, without performing algebra?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How to vaticinate calculating $w_{k + 1} = w_1(1 + \dfrac{1- p}{p} + \dots + [\dfrac{1- p}{p}]^k)$ separately for $p = 1 - p$ and $p \neq 1 - p$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How does P(Monty opens door 2) = P(Monty opens door 3), and $P(\text{get car}|M_2)P(M_2) = P(\text{get car}|M_3)P(M_3)$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How to visualize multiplication in the Odds form of Bayes's Theorem?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How to visualize division in the Odds form of Bayes's Theorem?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How can "information about the birth season" bring "at least one is a girl" closer to "a specific one is a girl"?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Intuitively, why would organisms — that after one minute, will either die, split into two, or stay the same, with equal probability — all die ultimately?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A In the Monty Hall problem, why can you just assume the contestant picked door 1? Why are you entitled to relabel the doors, or rewrite this solution with the door numbers permuted?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A If a 2nd test's independent from the 1st test, then why does $\frac{0.95}{0.05}$ figure twice in $\frac{P(D|T_1)}{P(D^C|T_1)}\frac{P(T_2|D,T_1)}{P(T_2|D^C,T_1)}$?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A How do these 3 bell curves of Likelihood, Posterior, Prior pictorialize the Odds form of Bayes' rule?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A Intuitively, why does A, B independent $\iff$ A, $B^C$ independent $\iff A^C, B^C$ independent?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by JRN‭

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Q&A Intuitively, if you pick k out of n objects singly without replacement, why's the number of possible outcomes NOT $n(n-1) \dots [(n-(k - 1)]\color{red}{(n - k)}$?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DNB‭  ·  edited 3y ago by DNB‭

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