Probability and statistics

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• A note on the Screaming Toes game
  • Published in 2020
  • Added on 2022-04-24
• Yule's "Nonsense Correlation" Solved!
  • Published in 2016
  • Added on 2021-08-29
• A Gambler that Bets Forever and the Strong Law of Large Numbers
  • Published in 2021
  • Added on 2021-06-07
• The cocked hat
  • Published in 2020
  • Added on 2021-03-23
• Ley statistics
  • Published in 2014
  • Added on 2019-03-02
• Power-law distributions in empirical data
  • Published in 2007
  • Added on 2018-09-24
• One parameter is always enough
  • Published in 2018
  • Added on 2018-06-06
• How long does it take to catch a wild kangaroo?
  • Published in 2008
  • Added on 2018-05-12
• The grasshopper problem
  • Published in 2017
  • Added on 2018-01-24
• Random railways modeled as random 3-regular graphs
  • Published in 1996
  • Added on 2018-01-09
• The Sleeping Beauty Controversy
  • Published in 2017
  • Added on 2017-08-14
• Frustration solitaire
  • Published in 2007
  • Added on 2017-08-10
• Randomly juggling backwards
  • Published in 2016
  • Added on 2017-06-14
• Statistics Done Wrong
  • Published in 2015
  • Added on 2017-03-01
• Random Triangles and Polygons in the Plane
  • Published in 2017
  • Added on 2017-02-06
• Human Inferences about Sequences: A Minimal Transition Probability Model
  • Published in 2016
  • Added on 2017-01-09
• Fuzzy plane geometry I: Points and lines
  • Published in 1997
  • Added on 2016-06-17
• Fair Dice
  • Published in 1989
  • Added on 2015-09-15
• Have you been using the wrong estimator? These guys bound average fidelity using this one weird trick von Neumann didn't want you to know
  • Published in 2015
  • Added on 2015-03-26
• The accuracy of Buffon's needle: a rule of thumb used by ants to estimate area
  • Published in 2001
  • Added on 2015-03-09
• Methods for studying coincidences
  • Published in 2006
  • Added on 2014-10-07
• Fair but irregular polyhedral dice
  • Published in 2010
  • Added on 2013-12-16
• The Maximum Throughput Rate for Each Hole on a Golf Course
  • Published in 2015
  • Added on 2013-11-25
• Is POPL Mathematics or Science?
  • Published in 1992
  • Added on 2013-11-06
• Sloane's Gap: Do Mathematical and Social Factors Explain the Distribution of Numbers in the OEIS?
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2013-10-17
• Half of a coin: negative probabilities
  • Published in 2005
  • Added on 2013-07-17
• Familial sinistrals avoid exact numbers.
  • Published in 2013
  • Added on 2013-04-15
• Invited commentary: the perils of birth weight--a lesson from directed acyclic graphs.
  • Published in 2006
  • Added on 2013-01-02
• Online Dating Recommender Systems: The Split-complex Number Approach
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2012-09-13
• A categorical foundation for Bayesian probability
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2012-05-08
• Statistical Modeling of Gang Violence in Los Angeles
  • Published in 2010
  • Added on 2012-04-13
• Undecidable problems: a sampler
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2012-04-04
• Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2012-03-27
• Doc, What Are My Chances?
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2012-03-11
• Random walks reaching against all odds the other side of the quarter plane
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2012-03-01
• Barcodes: the persistent topology of data
  • Published in 2008
  • Added on 2012-02-23
• Analysis of Casino Shelf Shuffling Machines
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2012-01-11
• Random Walks on Finite Groups
  • Published in 2004
  • Added on 2012-01-05
• How to Gamble If You're In a Hurry
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2011-12-15
• Tie knots, random walks and topology
  • Published in 2000
  • Added on 2011-12-09
• What Are the Odds?
  • Published in 1919
  • Added on 2011-12-09
• Designing tie knots by random walks
  • Published in 1999
  • Added on 2011-12-09
• Asymptotic statistics of the n-sided planar Poisson–Voronoi cell: I. Exact results
  • Published in 2005
  • Added on 2011-12-08
• Against Conditionalization
  • Published in 1995
  • Added on 2011-08-28
• Investigations of Game of Life cellular automata rules on Penrose Tilings : lifetime and ash statistics
  • Published in 2010
  • Added on 2011-08-14
• Better approximations to cumulative normal functions
  • Published in 2002
  • Added on 2011-01-22
• On Buffon Machines and Numbers
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2011-01-12
• Plane recursive trees, Stirling permutations and an urn model
  • Published in 2008
  • Added on 2010-02-25