Staistics week 5

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Internet Exercise for the Week : Dividing a Pot in an Unfinished Game

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Internet Exercise for the Week : Discrete Probability Distribution

Using Blackle ( HYPERLINK "http /www .blackle .com " www .blackle .com I came across a pdf document on discrete probability distributions on HYPERLINK "http /www .dartmouth .edu " www .dartmouth .edu with the keywords discrete probability distributions ' The document , entitled Chapter 1 : Discrete Probability Distributions , covers practically the same

ideas on the textbook . But more than that , the document shows an interesting historical note , near the end , dealing with probabilities , its delayed development , and its application on gambling

Gambling and probabilities have a lot , it seems , in common . I remember when I was but seven years old , I played a game of chance with a friend of mine . We were waiting for the rain to stop . And my mom seeing that my friend and I were quite restless being trapped inside the house proposed a game of chance . The winner gets a dollar . She asked us to wait by the window , which opens into the street , and see whether the passersby would be using an umbrella or not . In a best-of-21 game , she asked us if there would be more passersby that would have had an umbrella or not . Being thrilled by the prospects of a dollar , I immediately took the option that in 21 passersby there would be more who...