Prob09 Lecture3 Revised
Prob09 Lecture3 Revised
Last Time Probability Axioms Some Consequences of the Axioms Conditional Probability Reading Assignment: Sections 1.1-1.5
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Lecture 3:
Next Week Discrete Random Variables
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Diaconis, P., Holmes, S., and Montgomery, R. (2007) Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss. SIAM Review 49, 211-235.
Persi Diaconis (Jan. 31, 1945 - , ) Sunseri Prof. of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford U. born into a family of professional musicians left home at 14 to travel with magician Dai Vernon at 16 on his own as a magician for 8 years a friend recommended a probability book by Feller and then found that he couldn't read it so enrolled in N.Y. City College at night and got degree in mathematics in 2.5 years got PhD in statistics, Harvard, in 3 years Stanford an expert at deception "I work from seven A.M. to midnight each day. I'm always doing mathematics."
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Example 1.23 again, Q: E1 = {1,2}, E2={2,3}, E3={1,3}, E1 & E3, E2&E3, E1 &E2 independent? How about E1&E2&E3?
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Independent Trials
G m l R iPol a b r u rb m es n e Two gamblers A and B with a and b dollars play the game of fair coin toss with wager of $1 per game until one of them runs out of money. What is the probability that A runs out of money?
Solution: Let p(i) be the probability that a gambler starts with i dollars and run out of money eventually. After a coin toss, the gambler either wins or loses and starts from i+1 or i-1 dollars, so p(i )= (1/2) p(i+1) + (1/2) p(i-1) . Also, p(0) = 1, p(a+b) = 0, so p(i+1 )- p(i ) = p(i)p(i-1) Finally, we have p(i)= (a+b-i)/(a+b), p(a) = b/(a+b). For an unfair coin toss game, we can also find the probability that gambler A runs out of money
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Example Alex, Ben, and Tim are three prisoners, one of whom is scheduled to die. Alex asks a jailer to tell him who will be freed so that Alex could ask him to bring a letter to Aewf It jl tlAe t t h h n o B n n l s i .fh ae es l h w i oe f e ad x e e ir l x a c Tim is going to be freed, will this change the probability of Alex dying?
Let A, B, T, and J be the event that Alex, Ben, and Tim will die and the event that a jailer told Alex that Tim will be freed. Then P(A|J) = P(J|A)P(A)/[P(J|A)P(A) + P(J|B)P(B) + P(J|T)P(T)] = (1/2)(1/3)/[(1/2)(1/3) + 1(1/3) + 0(1/3)] = 1/3. Q: Relation to independence?
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Example 2.A1
(1) Toss a coin (2) Gender at birth (3) Random walk Q: Probability space of each experiment?
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