PinnedPascal BerckerProbability Of Having The Same Blood Type?Here is a straightforward probability question from Ruma Falk’s book of probability problems.Jun 15Jun 15
Pascal BerckerProbability of Having Two Boys — A Conditional Probability PuzzleThere’s a whole family of conditional probability puzzles that turn up again and again in any introduction to probabilities because, at…2d ago2d ago
Pascal BerckerPoisoned Fruits And The Hypergeometric DistributionDon’t play this game at home.3d ago3d ago
Pascal BerckerConstraint Satisfaction and Conflict Graphs — with a Bayesian NetworkI saw this interesting application of the 4-color theorem applied to what they call “conflict graphs”.Aug 2Aug 2
Pascal BerckerBertrand’s Box Paradox — Modeled with a Bayesian NetworkThis is a well known probability puzzle. The situation is as follows:Aug 1Aug 1
Pascal BerckerLewis Carroll — Pillow Problem #16 — Part 2 — With a Bayesian NetworkThis is a follow-up to Pillow problem #5 (part 1). All 72 of Lewis Carroll’s Pillow Problems (classified by categories) can be found here…Jul 30Jul 30
Pascal BerckerModeling the Probability Of A Double-Headed Coin with a Bayesian NetworkConsider these two questions (from the probability textbook below) illustrating how conditional probability functions:Jul 23Jul 23
Pascal BerckerTwo Coins — One Fair — One Biased — Solved with a Bayesian NetworkThis puzzle comes from Cut the Knot (see link below) which has a wealth of probability puzzles that frequently offers two or more…Jul 21Jul 21
Pascal BerckerWhat is Bayesian Inference? Modeling with A Bayesian NetworkI recently read an explanatory article on Bayesian Statistics that posed the following question:Jul 1Jul 1
Pascal BerckerAlice In The Forest of ForgetfulnessAlice is introduced in chapter 4 of Raymond Smullyan’s logic puzzle book What is the Name of This Book, where she forgets nearly everything…Jun 27Jun 27