In this chapter, we introduce the concept of a random variable and develop the procedures for characterizing random variables, including the cumulative distribution function, as well as the ...

Provides a one-semester course in probability and statistics with applications in the engineering sciences. Probability of events, discrete and continuous random variables cumulative distribution, ...

PageRank A java-based variant (x10) of the PageRank algorithm to simulate the probability of a web-surfer visiting a website at a given moment. Optimized for sparse matrix multiplication.

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It begins with questions of pure probability, leading up to the discussion of problems of random migration and kindred topics that are of interest to the modern physicist.

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...

Background The birthday paradox, also known as the birthday problem, states that in a random group of 23 people, there is about a 50 percent chance that two people have the same birthday. Is this ...