We live in a world where a lot of things seem to happen by pure chance, from winning the Lotto to losing your car keys. But the truth is, the likelihood of many everyday things happening is heavily ...

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, offers this explanation. A patient goes to see a doctor. The doctor performs a test with 99 percent ...

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes’ rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

Several important multivariate probability inequalities can be formulated in terms of multivariate convolutions of the form ∫ $f_{1}(x)f_{2}(x-\theta )dx$, where ...

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in this video we'll look at an application of the probabilistic method to extremal set theory extremal set theory is an area of combinatorics concerned with questions such as what is the largest ...