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World of Mathematics--Probability & Statistics

This is a sub-page of the large and comprehensive Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics site which is separately reviewed elsewhere on MERLOT. At the time of review this probability and statistics area listed 19 subtopics including Bayesian analysis, descriptive statistics, probability, random numbers, random walks, and statistical tests. Approximately 350 separate items on probability and statistics were included.... Show More
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Date Added to MERLOT:
April 22, 2002
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 11, 2023
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James Rutledge
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College General Ed, Graduate School, Professional
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sudasawan Ngammongkolwong
sudasawan Ngammongkolwong (Faculty)
13 years ago

thank you for good exercises Leaning.

Alison Benke
Alison Benke (Student)
17 years ago
I found this site really useful. I looked up coin tossing under probibility and learned how tossing a coin is like tossing a two sided die,and the Bernolli Distribution, how the patterns of the toss can be somewhat predicted. For example, it is more likely that you would toss TTH (tails, tails, heads) before you toss THT. Under the "history and terminolgy" page, I learned about the following terms, end of proof(QED),a latin abbreviation that means "that which has been demonstrated". Another term I had never heard of was pairwise, it means taking all unordered 2 subsets of a given set. Another is star that is a term used in geometry. Porism, which means proportion and called theorm in mathmatical terms.There were others I knew but needed to review, like unknown and complex variables. The examples of each term were pretty straightforward, and something an instructor could easily expand upon.

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By using the "history and terminology page" I could find the definition to many terms I didn't know or thought were interesting. Sometimes after reading about foreign term/concept, I recognized other terms with in that concept that I was familiar with and sa