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Math 308: Applied Statistics
... Office hours: MWF 11:00-12:00, or by appointment Purpose: A student completing this course should understand basic probability and statistical concepts and how to apply them to real-world situations. Prerequisites: Univariate calculus, Math 111 and Math 112. Text: Trosset, Michael (2002), An Introdu ...
... Office hours: MWF 11:00-12:00, or by appointment Purpose: A student completing this course should understand basic probability and statistical concepts and how to apply them to real-world situations. Prerequisites: Univariate calculus, Math 111 and Math 112. Text: Trosset, Michael (2002), An Introdu ...
Probability Quiz
... A coin is biased in such a way that in the long run, on the average, a head turns up 3 times in 10 tosses. If this biased coin is tossed simultaneously with an unbiased coin, what is the probability that both will fall as heads? ...
... A coin is biased in such a way that in the long run, on the average, a head turns up 3 times in 10 tosses. If this biased coin is tossed simultaneously with an unbiased coin, what is the probability that both will fall as heads? ...
Handout - CMU Math
... (b) Compute E[X]. (Intuitively, what should it be? Now prove it.) 3. Now take the same biased coin that lands heads with probability p, and toss it n times. Let Y be the number of times the coin lands heads. (a) Write an expression for Pr[Y = k] in terms of n, p, and k. (b) Compute E[Y ]. (Intuitive ...
... (b) Compute E[X]. (Intuitively, what should it be? Now prove it.) 3. Now take the same biased coin that lands heads with probability p, and toss it n times. Let Y be the number of times the coin lands heads. (a) Write an expression for Pr[Y = k] in terms of n, p, and k. (b) Compute E[Y ]. (Intuitive ...
Chapter 5 Problems 2 - Columbus State University
... 8) When two balanced dice are rolled, 36 equally likely outcomes are possible. Let X denote the smaller of the two numbers. If both dice come up the same number, then X equals that common value. Find the probability distribution of X. Leave your probabilities in fraction form. B) C) D) A) x P(X = x) ...
... 8) When two balanced dice are rolled, 36 equally likely outcomes are possible. Let X denote the smaller of the two numbers. If both dice come up the same number, then X equals that common value. Find the probability distribution of X. Leave your probabilities in fraction form. B) C) D) A) x P(X = x) ...
Ma 351 Theory of Probability (Fall 2013)
... Course Objectives. To provide an introduction to the mathematical theory of probability and the many diverse possible applications of the subject. Learning Outcomes. Students will be able to: • Define various probabilistic concepts. • Apply combinatorial methods to compute probabilities of events wh ...
... Course Objectives. To provide an introduction to the mathematical theory of probability and the many diverse possible applications of the subject. Learning Outcomes. Students will be able to: • Define various probabilistic concepts. • Apply combinatorial methods to compute probabilities of events wh ...
Randomness
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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.