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2012 Aug 04
3
Head or Tails game
Hi, Reading about a "Heads and Tails" game in http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/amsbook.mac.pdf Introduction to Probability (Example 1.4, pp. 5-8). You toss a coin 40 times. If heads, Peter wins $1, tails, he loses $1. I think I can do that ok with: winnings <- sum(sample(c(-1,1), 40, replace=TRUE)) But I have to do it 10,000 times and I have to record and collect the w...
2009 Oct 17
2
Recommendation on a probability textbook (conditional probability)
I need to refresh my memory on Probability Theory, especially on conditional probability. In particular, I want to solve the following two problems. Can somebody point me some good books on Probability Theory? Thank you! 1. Z=X+Y, where X and Y are independent random variables and their distributions are known. Now, I want to compute E(X | Z = z). 2.Suppose that I have $I \times J$ random number