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Monday, August 22, 2022
Factorial moments of the Binomial and related distributions
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Factorial moments are defined as the expected value of the falling factorial of a random variable. In this post, we are going to try to comp...
Thursday, July 7, 2022
The Inverse Sum Theorem
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This post talks about the 'Inverse Sum theorem' which is at the heart of the video for my SoME2 submission . Consider two right angl...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Expected values with Bertrand's Paradox
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Bertrand's paradox is a neat problem that shows what happens when we take the words 'at random' a bit too casually. In this pos...
Candles and Cake problem - Probabilities with Bertrand's Paradox
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The video I referred to in the earlier post only shows a Monte Carlo solution but we can find the exact values quite easily using the densit...
Sunday, April 24, 2022
The Problem of points - Without Replacement
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Consider an Urn with $A$ green balls and $B$ red balls. Two players A and B play a game where they draw balls from this Urn one at a time (w...
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Expected distance between two points inside a Sphere
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This post picks up where we left earlier. As discussed before, we want to find the expected distance between two points randomly selected in...
Expected distance between two points on the Surface of a sphere
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Problems in Geometric Probability are always fascinating. In this post, we going to see two of the well known and challenging problems in th...
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