Re: Martingale in the field ... The chances of getting *any* specific fair coin flipping ...rolls, just much less likely than ALL the other sets of rolls put ... This same principle can be illustrated by examining the probability... Probability of exactly 0 successes in 10 trials is 0.000976562 ... (rec.gambling.craps)
Re: Multiplicative Chernoff bound ... and the average number of failures and successes m per sample. ... the chernoff bound to find e such that with probability c, ...relative error of my estimation m of p is as small as I want (with ... and the confidence intervals from this will be asymptotically ... (sci.stat.math)
Re: please check my homework ... > /* return the probability of x successes in n events, ... > given the probability p for success in a single event,... In the above comment you should specify that n must be a positive integer,... (comp.programming)
Re: Simple confidence interval ... Say I run 10 trials and I get 7 successes.... Is there a way to calculate a probability range (such ... You can obtain confidence intervals for the binomial parameter by using the relationship between the binomial distribution and the beta distribution and the relationship between the beta distribution and the F distribution. ... Let x be the observed number of successes, n be the number of trials, and 1-alpha be the confidence level.... (sci.stat.math)
Re: Incoherent Odds? ...Probability is a measurement of the likelihood of an event happenning. ... the limit of the ratio s/n,... odds are the ratio of failures to successes (where ... you get four failures for every one success; ... (sci.math)
