Sir, I think that most of your readers must have heard of the Monty Hall problem many times (“Stick-or-switch inspires an onion of a puzzle”, Tim Harford, October 7). Here is a somewhat subtler puzzle ...
Probability is a measure of the likelihood of events happening. The greater the proportion of times an event can happen the greater (or more likely) the probability. Events can be ordered by the ...
The Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science covers three broadly overlapping main areas of research: probability, statistics and data science. Probability theory is a core topic within ...