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  2. Balls into bins problem - Wikipedia

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    The efficiency of accessing a key depends on the length of its list. If we use a single hash function which selects locations with uniform probability, with high probability the longest chain has (⁡ ⁡ ⁡) keys. A possible improvement is to use two hash functions, and put each new key in the shorter of the two lists.

  3. Convergence of random variables - Wikipedia

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    As an example one may consider random variables with densities f n (x) = (1 + cos(2πnx))1 (0,1). These random variables converge in distribution to a uniform U(0, 1), whereas their densities do not converge at all. [3] However, according to Scheffé’s theorem, convergence of the probability density functions implies convergence in ...

  4. Probability - Wikipedia

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    Probability is the branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an event is to occur. [note 1] [1] [2] This number is often expressed as a percentage (%), ranging from 0% to ...

  5. 100 prisoners problem - Wikipedia

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    The probability that all prisoners find their numbers is the product of the single probabilities, which is (⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠) 100 ≈ 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0008, a vanishingly small number. The situation appears hopeless.

  6. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    The probability in a continuous probability distribution. For example, you can't say that the probability of a man being six feet tall is 20%, but you can say he has 20% of chances of being between five and six feet tall. Probability density is given by a probability density function. Contrast probability mass. probability density function

  7. Probability space - Wikipedia

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    These two non-atomic examples are closely related: a sequence (x 1, x 2, ...) ∈ {0,1} ∞ leads to the number 21 x 1 + 22 x 2 + ⋯ ∈ [0,1]. This is not a one-to-one correspondence between {0,1} ∞ and [0,1] however: it is an isomorphism modulo zero , which allows for treating the two probability spaces as two forms of the same ...

  8. Birthday problem - Wikipedia

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    The event that all 23 people have different birthdays is the same as the event that person 2 does not have the same birthday as person 1, and that person 3 does not have the same birthday as either person 1 or person 2, and so on, and finally that person 23 does not have the same birthday as any of persons 1 through 22. Let these events be ...

  9. Fisher's method - Wikipedia

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    Under Fisher's method, two small p-values P 1 and P 2 combine to form a smaller p-value.The darkest boundary defines the region where the meta-analysis p-value is below 0.05.. For example, if both p-values are around 0.10, or if one is around 0.04 and one is around 0.25, the meta-analysis p-value is around 0