Patrick Billingsley, an influential probability theorist who also became an accomplished actor of stage and screen, died Friday, April 22 in his Hyde Park home after a short illness. He was 85. “He’s ...

Measurement shows that almost one-half of all market days are down days and slightly more are up days, but close enough to think of it as 50/50. Just as the probability of getting a long string of ...

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...

THIS book is scarcely the philosophical treatise which its title may suggest. It is the written-up version of six lectures on probability and applications, as conceived from von Mises' special ...

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 ...