Posts Tagged ‘ conditional probability ’

What is probabilistic truth? Part 2 – Everything is conditional

May 24, 2013
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What is probabilistic truth? Part 2 – Everything is conditional

Read Part 1 When making a statement of the form “1/2 is the correct probability that this coin will land tails”, there are a few things which are left unsaid, but which are typically implied. The statement is one about the probability of an unknown event occurring, and it would seem reasonable to write this […]

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Simulating Euro 2012

June 11, 2012
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Simulating Euro 2012

Why settle for just one realisation of this year’s UEFA Euro when you can let the tournament play out 10,000 times in silico? Since I already had some code lying around from my submission to the Kaggle hosted 2010 Take on the Quants challenge, I figured I’d recycle it for the Euro this year. The

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