Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The results of this paper deal directly with the behavior of compositions of random probability generating functions. These results are then ...

A recent paper by Lin and Stoyanov is devoted to the moment problem for geometrically compounded sums. The aim of this note is to provide affirmative answers to their conjectures. Journal Information ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...