Abstract The language and constructions of category theory have
... If the distribution follows some smoothness conditions, then the probability of any given event in the limit goes to 0, so we cannot compute the probability of a disjoint collection of events simply based on their individual probabilities as in the discrete case. Indeed the problem becomes much wors ...
... If the distribution follows some smoothness conditions, then the probability of any given event in the limit goes to 0, so we cannot compute the probability of a disjoint collection of events simply based on their individual probabilities as in the discrete case. Indeed the problem becomes much wors ...
John Tabak-Probability and Statistics_ The Science of Uncertainty
... event on the list must occur. One goal, then, is to determine the probability of each event on the list, but by itself accomplishing that goal is often not sufficient for many practical problems. It is often important to determine the factors on which our probability estimates depend because probabi ...
... event on the list must occur. One goal, then, is to determine the probability of each event on the list, but by itself accomplishing that goal is often not sufficient for many practical problems. It is often important to determine the factors on which our probability estimates depend because probabi ...
Discrete Structures for Computer Science: Counting, Recursion, and
... exists a complete graph with n vertices, in which each edge is either solid or dashed, such that this graph does not contain a solid k-clique and does not contain a dashed k-clique. We will prove this theorem in Section 7.2 using elementary counting techniques and probability theory. This probably s ...
... exists a complete graph with n vertices, in which each edge is either solid or dashed, such that this graph does not contain a solid k-clique and does not contain a dashed k-clique. We will prove this theorem in Section 7.2 using elementary counting techniques and probability theory. This probably s ...
STA 256: Statistics and Probability I
... You can solve this with an elementary argument. Imagine that there are 10000 people. (You may use any number you want. 10000 just turns out to be convenient for this calculation). We are given that out of these 10, 000 people 30% or 3000 are young. Of these, 1320 are young males. So the number of yo ...
... You can solve this with an elementary argument. Imagine that there are 10000 people. (You may use any number you want. 10000 just turns out to be convenient for this calculation). We are given that out of these 10, 000 people 30% or 3000 are young. Of these, 1320 are young males. So the number of yo ...
Randomness
Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are by definition unpredictable, but in many cases the frequency of different outcomes over a large number of events (or ""trials"") is predictable. For example, when throwing two dice, the outcome of any particular roll is unpredictable, but a sum of 7 will occur twice as often as 4. In this view, randomness is a measure of uncertainty of an outcome, rather than haphazardness, and applies to concepts of chance, probability, and information entropy.The fields of mathematics, probability, and statistics use formal definitions of randomness. In statistics, a random variable is an assignment of a numerical value to each possible outcome of an event space. This association facilitates the identification and the calculation of probabilities of the events. Random variables can appear in random sequences. A random process is a sequence of random variables whose outcomes do not follow a deterministic pattern, but follow an evolution described by probability distributions. These and other constructs are extremely useful in probability theory and the various applications of randomness.Randomness is most often used in statistics to signify well-defined statistical properties. Monte Carlo methods, which rely on random input (such as from random number generators or pseudorandom number generators), are important techniques in science, as, for instance, in computational science. By analogy, quasi-Monte Carlo methods use quasirandom number generators.Random selection is a method of selecting items (often called units) from a population where the probability of choosing a specific item is the proportion of those items in the population. For example, with a bowl containing just 10 red marbles and 90 blue marbles, a random selection mechanism would choose a red marble with probability 1/10. Note that a random selection mechanism that selected 10 marbles from this bowl would not necessarily result in 1 red and 9 blue. In situations where a population consists of items that are distinguishable, a random selection mechanism requires equal probabilities for any item to be chosen. That is, if the selection process is such that each member of a population, of say research subjects, has the same probability of being chosen then we can say the selection process is random.