Suppose that a patient is to be screened for a certain disease or medical condition. There are two important questions at the outset. How accurate is the screen or test? For example, at the outset,…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
The previous post is on the Monty Hall Problem. This post adds to the discussion by looking at three pieces from New York Times. Anyone who is not familiar with the problem should read the previous…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
The post discusses the Monty Hall problem, a brain teaser and a classic problem in probability. The following 5 pictures describe the problem. Several simple solutions are presented. ______________…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
What better way to celebrate Pi Day than to have a blog post on the digits of $latex \pi$! Giving pi as tips The number $latex \pi$ is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
Consider this random experiment. You ask people (one at a time) of their birthdays (month and day only). The process continues until there is a repeat in the series of birthdays, in other words, un…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
This post discusses the coupon collector problem, a classical problem in probability. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Coupon Collector Problem The pr…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
In this post, we discusses an example in which you are given a password (every character of it) and yet it is still very hard (or even impossible) to crack. Anyone who understands this example has …| A Blog on Probability and Statistics