A method for estimating the probability of occurrence of an event from dichotomous or polychotomous data is developed, using a recursive approach. The method in the dichotomous case is applied to the ...

The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...

And in case you've forgotten: probability is a mathematical process that puts a number on the likelihood of something happening. When we toss a coin we can observe the frequency of an event (such ...