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  • ...rkets] and other such markets to predict the outcomes of elections, sports events, Oscar winners etc. independent events, the probability that the democrats take both is ...
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  • ...rkets] and other such markets to predict the outcomes of elections, sports events, Oscar winners etc. See for example [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chan independent events, the probability that the Democrats take both is ...
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  • ...ok is especially timely reading for those among us who wonder how long the current bull market will continue. ...ines in the values of stocks. In fact, in an interview that appears in the current issue of "In The Vanguard", a publication sent to all shareholders of Vangu ...
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  • ...cience of Statistics. It is a rule, that the most casual and extraordinary events -- if the basis of population is broad enough -- become matter of fixed cal This is not current news, but since Supreme Court appointments are in the news we felt that the ...
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  • ...s behind the use of numbers in contemporary media events. For example, the current episode - at the time of writing - considers differences in the accuracy of 2. The current study was done in England and of the 740 mothers-to-be, 301 (approximately ...
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  • ...t Bruce Beckwih at a conference in 1969 and the definition, which is still current, along with many others,was formulated at the conference by Beckwith and ot unlikely. So it's the same with these deaths. You have to say two unlikely events have happened and together it's very, ...
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  • ...when there are three safer drugs on the market for reducing cardiovascular events." ...E or vitamin C supplementation decreases the risk of major cardiovascular events among men.” This “Physicians' Health Study II was a randomized, double ...
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  • events it refers to. Therefore, even numerical probabilities can be interpreted by ...public, experts need to specify the reference class, that is, the class of events to which a ...
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  • ...or 1/7,776 - one chance in 7,776. The much longer sequences of fortuitous events necessary for a new species or a ...rgument, however, is deeply flawed. Leaving aside the issue of independent events, I note that there are always a fantastically huge number of evolutionary p ...
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  • ...tive draws is <math>1/5245786^2</math>. Because the sets involve disjoint events, the probability that SOME set will occur in the next two consecutive draws We assume (!) that the events <math>A_i</math> are independent and identically distributed with probabili ...
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  • ...edia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem Bayes ideas] about the prediction of future events from one or two examples were popular for a while, and have never been fund ...sed as a mathematical probability distribution of the frequency with which events of a particular magnitude happen. ...
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  • .../01/earthquake-probability-maps.html "Geology News - Earth Science Current Events"] refers interested readers to a website created by the U.S. Geological Sur Bob Norman ( Professor emeritus at Dartmouth college) has as current research methods of voting, He provided for us the following comments on th ...
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  • ...at] longevity improvements will continue at their current pace [instead of current death rates remaining constant]. In that model, more than half the children ...ed to make this point, but insurance makes sense for covering catastrophic events of whatever probability, that would otherwise bankrupt an individual. It is ...
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  • ...nvestors would have obtained large excess returns by trading on these mood events. ...ught to work, just because they made a mistake...People who follow current events by reading the papers and newsmagazines regularly can guess what is likely ...
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  • ...a talented statistician declared: ‘It is also true that for extremely rare events, correct uncertainty estimates may lead us to conclude that we know virtual “For emotionally significant events, the size of the probability simply doesn’t matter. What matters is the p ...
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  • ...the phenomenon now known as Simpson’s paradox goes back before any of the current Chance News readers were born; the bestowing of the name, according to [htt ...an diet with nuts (83 events), respectively, versus the control group (109 events). No diet-related adverse effects were reported. ...
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  • ...n everyday example: "People use imprecise words to describe the chance of events all the time — 'It’s likely to rain,'" ...family death rate (in deaths per 100 students), broken down by students's current grade and whether an exam (midterm or final) is coming up. ...
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  • <blockquote> Events like this send a shiver down the spine, but the math behind strange coincid (B) the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers (Current Series) from July of the first of those 3 academic years to July of the las ...
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  • Current or future statisticians may be interested in the all-volunteer organization ...rule that tells you that for such a case, whatever the expected number of events (based on their probability) may be, the average fluctuation is just about ...
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  • <center>Events with a-million-to-one odds happen 295 times a ...nts called "Value at Risk" (VaR) and asks the question: did it lead to the current financial meltdown? While you should certainly read this article, it would ...
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  • ...readers to some other aspects of the book and how it relates to subsequent events. ...ith providing "mild to moderate improvement in symptoms with fewer adverse events than finasteride (approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat ben ...
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  • ...where he combined the theory of mathematics with people’s everyday lives: events in the news, sports, gambling, and medicine. ===Unlikely events=== ...
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  • ...ve effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplements against overall cardiovascular events among patients with a history of cardiovascular disease, ...say they graduated from college, as opposed to the 28% figure found by the Current Population Survey. ...
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  • Since our current load factor is 95pc, we have to keep these window and ...r-president-trump-will-hold-a-what-else-campaign-rally.html campaign-style events], and that his communications regularly lapse into campaign rhetoric. The ...
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  • calculates that, if current trends continue, it is expected to reach ...ithdrawn from the study. A better indication of the strange collection of events depicted in this book comes from how Mayer first became interested in her q ...
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  • ...ciple <i>The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day</i>], 2015</div> ...-debate/?tid=trending_strip_1 State of the debate] widget that updates the current top 10 based on the most recent polling results. For July 30 we see ...
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  • 1. The research design in the current study was not randomized. Is this an issue? ...won will be at its lowest level (0.14) since the 1994 players’ strike, if “current standings hold up through the end of the season.” And it contains a grap ...
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  • ...en.de/archive/00001241/ link to the pdf).] This new study published in the current issue of the Social Science Quarterly by researchers from Princeton Univers ...alks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers or elsewhere? What is your current top choice? ...
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  • <blockquote>[I]n all the events the researchers studied, Mr. Woods was the only golfer to win a tournament ...osling. A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing worl ...
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  • ...ot cheaper. Of course the PSA testing companies are likely to resist this current interpretation. Recent events in Tucson have focused discussion on the relationship between gun ownership ...
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  • ...owed that 94 percent of respondents believed that they could not influence events in Russia. According to another, 62 percent did not think that elections re ...bs_navlinks_s] (current 2002 edition is update from my 1980 edition). The current table of contents and sample pages are also available online [http://books. ...
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  • ...d against a "random" process to choose, buy, and sell stocks, which in the current version is achieved through the antics of a cat named ''Orlando''. "While t ...omparisons with the infusion group). No significant differences in adverse events among the three study groups were observed except for mild diarrhea and abd ...
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  • One problem with the current 75-year-old system is that the college game has changed significantly from ...tries to draw the reader in with “Can luck really influence the outcome of events,” his second paragraph begins with “They [lucky charms] do (sometimes)� ...
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  • ...(at least) zeroes … [and] … almost certainly do better. …. None of these events are probabilities; they are all certainties. The only issue is timing, abou ...ologists have long known that people tend to overestimate the odds of rare events. Applying that behavioral insight, [a] finance professor … has devised a ...
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  • ..."a small freshwater lake (148 km squared and a mean depth of 20 m)." The current name is Lake Kinneret but in Biblical days it was known as the Sea of Galil ...raw any conclusions regarding the implications of this study to the actual events that took place...Our springs ice calculations may or may not be related to ...
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  • 2. The current study was done in England and of the 740 mothers-to-be, 301 (approximately ...more actual applications and explanations of counter-intuitive probability events. ...
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  • ...where he combined the theory of mathematics with people’s everyday lives: events in the news, sports, gambling, and medicine. ===Unlikely events=== ...
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  • ...e in means can lead to a significant difference in the probability of tail events. For example consider the probability that a randomly chosen member of on 5. The JAMA article states, "the current investigation used a nonrandomized design." Further, the study was complet ...
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  • ...is ''very likely'' that hot extremes, heat waves, and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent.” Only a small minority of the part ...al pundits]. Cohn wonders whether such models can be as successful in the current climate. He writes: ...
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