Digital dice : computational solutions to practical probability problems
A collection of twenty-one real-life probability puzzles and shows how to get numerical answers without having to solve complicated mathematical equations
Print Book, English, ©2008
Princeton University Press, Princeton, ©2008
exercise books
xi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780691126982, 0691126984
164570975
The clumsy dishwasher problem
Will Lil and Bill meet at the malt shop?
A parallel parking question
A curious coin-flipping game
The Gamow-Stern elevator puzzle
Steve's elevator problem
The pipe smoker's discovery
A toilet paper dilemma
The forgetful burglar problem
The umbrella quandary
The case of the missing senators
How many runners in a marathon?
A police patrol problem
Parrondo's paradox
How long is the wait to get the potato salad?
The appeals court paradox
Waiting for buses
Waiting for stoplights
Electing emperors and popes
An optimal stopping problem
Chain reactions, branching processes, and baby boys
Appendixes: 1. One way to guess on a test
2. An example of variance-reduction in the Monte Carlo method
3. Random harmonic sums
4. Solving Montmort's problem by recursion
5. An illustration of the inclusion-exclusion principle
6. Solutions to the spin game
7. How to simulate Kelvin's fair coin with a biased coin
8. How to simulate an exponential random variable
9. Index to author-created MATLAB m-files in the book
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