This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We show that the stochastic versions of some classical problems in combinatorial optimization may be imbedded in multiparameter subadditive ...

Consider a situation in which balls are falling into N cells with arbitrary probabilities. A limiting distribution for the number of occupied cells after n falls is obtained, when n and N → ∞, so that ...

CBSE Class 12 Maths Formulas Probability: Every student knows the Pythagoras theorems and the quadratic equations. This is essential mathematical knowledge that most people possess, whether math ...

Bayes' theorem of probability was proposed by English mathematician and clergyman Thomas Bayes in the 1740s, and rediscovered in the 1770s by Pierre Simon Laplace, a French mathematician. It states ...

What reason is there to suppose that the future will resemble the past, or that unobserved particulars will resemble observed ones? None, of course, until resemblances are further specified, e.g., ...

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 ...

Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...