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  2. Buffon's needle problem - Wikipedia

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    We can calculate the probability P as the product of two probabilities: P = P 1 · P 2, where P 1 is the probability that the center of the needle falls close enough to a line for the needle to possibly cross it, and P 2 is the probability that the needle actually crosses the line, given that the center is within reach.

  3. Multiple comparisons problem - Wikipedia

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    However, if one considers 100 confidence intervals simultaneously, each with 95% coverage probability, the expected number of non-covering intervals is 5. If the intervals are statistically independent from each other, the probability that at least one interval does not contain the population parameter is 99.4%.

  4. Complementary event - Wikipedia

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    One may resolve this overlap by the principle of inclusion-exclusion, or, in this case, by simply finding the probability of the complementary event and subtracting it from 1, thus: Pr(at least one "1") = 1 − Pr(no "1"s)

  5. Coupling (probability) - Wikipedia

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    Using the standard formalism of probability theory, let and be two random variables defined on probability spaces (,,) and (,,).Then a coupling of and is a new probability space (,,) over which there are two random variables and such that has the same distribution as while has the same distribution as .

  6. Mutual exclusivity - Wikipedia

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    The probability that at least one of the events will occur is equal to one. [4] For example, there are theoretically only two possibilities for flipping a coin. Flipping a head and flipping a tail are collectively exhaustive events, and there is a probability of one of flipping either a head or a tail.

  7. Balls into bins problem - Wikipedia

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    A powerful balls-into-bins paradigm is the "power of two random choices [2]" where each ball chooses two (or more) random bins and is placed in the lesser-loaded bin. This paradigm has found wide practical applications in shared-memory emulations, efficient hashing schemes, randomized load balancing of tasks on servers, and routing of packets ...

  8. Family-wise error rate - Wikipedia

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    Thus, by assuring , the probability of making one or more type I errors in the family is controlled at level . A procedure controls the FWER in the weak sense if the FWER control at level α {\displaystyle \alpha \,\!} is guaranteed only when all null hypotheses are true (i.e. when m 0 = m {\displaystyle m_{0}=m} , meaning the "global null ...

  9. Multivariate probit model - Wikipedia

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    In statistics and econometrics, the multivariate probit model is a generalization of the probit model used to estimate several correlated binary outcomes jointly. For example, if it is believed that the decisions of sending at least one child to public school and that of voting in favor of a school budget are correlated (both decisions are binary), then the multivariate probit model would be ...