Mathematics - Posts tagged probability

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Q&A You're sampling k people from a population of size n one at a time, with replacement and with equal probabilities. Order or not?

0 answers · posted 1y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A "A occurred" vs. "something must happen"

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

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Q&A Explain to a 9 year old — To count each possibility c times, why divide by c? Why not subtract by c?

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Q&A How can I deduce which operation removes redundacies?

3 answers · posted 2y ago by DNB‭ · edited 1y ago by DNB‭

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Q&A What story and two-digit Natural Numbers best fit Bayes' Theorem chart?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by DNB‭ · reopened 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How does Pr(an event next year) $= 1/100$ imply Pr(at least one of these events occurring in the next 25 years) $> 1/5$?

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · last activity 2y ago by Nat‭

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Q&A How's the outcome of airplane crashes almost always certain, but the probability is not? [closed]

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · edited 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why isn't $\Pr(diseased|+ test) = \dfrac{\text{number of true positives}}{\text{number of false positives}}$?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · edited 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why paradoxical to accept \$3, and avoid betting on Dushanbe's temperature for a prize of \$10?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · edited 2y ago by thelast19digitsofpi‭

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Q&A What does "individuals discount the future in a constant manner" mean?

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Q&A If money's less valuable in the two-bullet case of the Russian Roulette problem, then ought you pay more to remove a bullet when the gun has $\ge 2$ bullets?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why should the near-zero prior probability, of 9/11/2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, overwhelm any subsequent response that may have lowered the objective risk?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · edited 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How to quantify "married people are less likely than the average person to smoke", "smokers are less likely than the average person to be married"?

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · last activity 2y ago by thelast19digitsofpi‭

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Q&A What was Justice Scalia's mathematical mistake in Penry v. Lynaugh (1989)?

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · last activity 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A Why mustn't the proportion of smokers among married people be the same as the proportion of smokers in the whole population?

1 answer · posted 2y ago by Chgg Clou‭ · last activity 2y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How to intuit : married smokers × all people < all smokers × all married people ?

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Q&A What story and one-digit Natural Numbers explain Bayes' Theorem chart most simply?

0 answers · posted 2y ago by DNB‭ · edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A In $P(X\leq q)$, what do we call $q$?

1 answer · posted 2y ago by anoldmaninthesea‭ · last activity 2y ago by gramps‭

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Q&A The probability distribution of rolling $n$ dice and keeping $k$ highest

1 answer · posted 2y ago by tommi‭ · last activity 2y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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