Dependence structures between the failure time and the cause of failure are expressed in terms of the monotonicity properties of the conditional probabilities involving the cause of failure and the ...

Praxis the robot and Alan the “human man” look at the history of mathematical probability. They meet Galileo, whose work with dice brings him under the suspicion of some rather violent inquisitors.

Key points The history of statistical significance can be traced to statistician Ronald Fisher in the early 1920s. The concept of statistical significance arose through mere happenstance. Replication ...