Written by Scott D. Anderson
scott.anderson@acm.org
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  • Examples

    Plan

    • Law of large number model from Permutations and Combinations
    • Recap conditional probability
    • blackjack pairs
    • conditional probability applied to probabilities estimated by simulation
    • Random variables
    • Distributions
      • discrete have a PMF
      • continuous have a PDF
    • Binomial
    • Poisson