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Stirling's approximation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Matthew Leingang on 20 Jul 09

Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know about where this formula comes from.

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Matthew Leingang on 20 Jul 09

Stirling's approximation is for n! in terms of continuous functions.

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Marc Tourangeau on 21 Jul 09

The derivation didn't require any complex analysis after all; thank goodness.

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Probabilistic method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Some interesting problems from one of my favorite mathematicians.

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Intrinsic random event - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Samantha Spilkin on 21 Jul 09

young einstein vs. old einstein why he changed his mind!

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Interactive Feature - The Monty Hall Problem - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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An interactive walk-through of the Monty Hall Game and explanation. Try it out!

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YouTube - Understanding Odds: Bayes Theorem - 0 views

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Understanding Odds: Bayes Theorem

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Understanding Odds: Bayes Theorem

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ACS :: Lifetime Probability of Developing or Dying From Cancer - 0 views

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Matthew Leingang on 14 Jul 09

Yikes! A 45% chance of some kind of cancer. Not good news for those of us over 30.

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How to Calculate Bridge Suit Split Combinatorics/Probability - 0 views

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Taking Bridge to another level

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Twin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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The twin birth rate in the United States in 2004, 2005 and 2006 was slightly above 32 twin live births per 1,000 live births
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The twin birth rate in the United States in 2004, 2005 and 2006 was slightly above 32 twin live births per 1,000 live births[2].
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St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME - 0 views

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Products - Life Tables - Homepage - 0 views

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Matthew Leingang on 07 Jul 09

Data on the portion of individuals surviving to various ages broken down by sex, race, and other factors.

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Parimutuel betting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Describing the system by which money is won and odds are calculated in horse racing and large-prize lottery games.

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Math and the City - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Evidence of a surprising mathematical pattern (Zipf Distribution) in both the relative populations of cities and the calories burned by mice.

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Matthew Leingang on 03 Aug 09

That's very cool. I hadn't known anything about the Zipf Distribution before.

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Flora Kwong on 03 Aug 09

Whoa. I guess humans are more in tune with their surroundings than we think.

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Visualizing Bayes' theorem | oscarbonilla.com - 0 views

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Bayes' Theorem illustrated.

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Matthew Leingang on 03 Aug 09

Nice pictures there.

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Live Scoreboard | FanGraphs Baseball - 0 views

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Live updated win probabilites for baseball games based on the state (runners on, number of outs and innings remaining) of each of the games.

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xkcd - A Webcomic - Random Number - 0 views

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Truman Deeb on 20 Jul 09

lol, that was clever.

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For Today's Graduate, Just One Word - Statistics - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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This is for those who wondered what a degree in math can get!

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Matthew Leingang on 06 Aug 09

The rising stature of statisticians, who can earn $125,000 at top companies in their first year after getting a doctorate, is a byproduct of the recent explosion of digital data. In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore - sensor signals, surveillance tapes, social network chatter, public records and more. And the digital data surge only promises to accelerate, rising fivefold by 2012, according to a projection by IDC, a research firm.

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Expectation - Mean and Variance - 0 views

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Glen Whitney's quest for a math museum : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Matthew Leingang on 05 Aug 09

Not so much relevant to probability but a nice story and it mentions an NYU professor.

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The (mis)behavior of markets: a ... - Google Books - 0 views

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Mandlebrot argues that markets do not follow a normal distribution. An interesting book from the man behind the Mandlebrot set.

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Sam V on 30 Jul 09

thanks for this. Dr. Mandlebrot seems to be always ahead of his time.

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