Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

Earlier today, Nate criticized a U.S. military survey that asks troops the question, “Do you currently serve with a male or female Service member you believe to be homosexual.” [emphasis added] As ...

Several theorems are stated which are useful in establishing whether a given sequence of averages of independent but not identically distributed random variables does or does not satisfy the weak ...

Subjective Probability In the course of their daily lives men must constantly measure the probability of events. How these personal judgements conform to the actual laws of probability is investigated ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Von Mises defined a "physical" probability as a strict limit of the relative frequency of occurrence of an event in repeated trials. As a ...

President Obama (above) and millions of other Americans have been busy this week filling out their brackets for the NCAA college basketball tournament, which brings to mind my fascination with the ...

A new study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. A new LMU study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. How ...