CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Fundamentals of random variables; mean-squared estimation; limit theorems and convergence; definition of random processes; autocorrelation and stationarity; Gaussian and Poisson ...

Explain why probability is important to statistics and data science. See the relationship between conditional and independent events in a statistical experiment. Calculate the expectation and variance ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We construct a nondecreasing pure jump Markov process, whose jump measure heavily depends on the values taken by the process. We determine the ...

Here’s a game Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented in 1948. He was trying to model the English language as a random process. Go to your bookshelf, pick up a random book, open it ...

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In the CNS, the postsynaptic response to an action potential is variable: neurotransmitter release is probabilistic and the postsynaptic response to neurotransmitter release has variable timing and ...