The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

If a new pathogen causes a large epidemic, then it might “burn out” before causing a second epidemic. The burnout probability can be estimated from large numbers of computationally intensive ...

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Where \(X\) is a normally distributed random variable with mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation \(\sigma\). The peak of the curve occurs at \(x=\mu\), and the spread ...

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When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

The snippet below shows a basic example of using the package to generate samples from a normal target distribution with random scales. Adapters are used to tune the proposal scale to achieve a target ...

The probability integral method is one of the most widely used methods for predicting surface subsidence induced by underground mining in China. In its parameter calculation, the least square ...