Difficult endgame decisions in Pineapple Open Face Chinese (POFC) are quite common, and it can be quite a challenge to choose the play that offers the highest expected value. The most difficult aspect ...

The attempt to calculate a null probability for a given degree of matching among a set of phylogenetic area cladograms (or between a cladogram representing a geographic hypothesis and a set of ...

It is certain that this bus will either be late or not late, which is a probability of 1 The missing value of a probability can be worked out by subtracting the known probabilities from 1 (100% when ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Probability voting models arrive at important conclusions on the paradox of voting. The computation of the probabilities uses the Selby ...

Venn diagrams are used to sort sets of data. The probability of an event not happening uses the complement of the region on the Venn diagram. Count the number of elements in each region. Redraw the ...

As speculation mounts about when the Federal Reserve will alter its target for the federal funds rate, its primary tool for steering the economy these days, trading in financial futures markets offer ...

An argument has been making the rounds that there’s really no danger of default if the U.S. runs up against the debt ceiling — the president could simply make sure that all debt payments are made on ...

In the last installment we discussed combinations and how they may be used to calculate probabilities in Pineapple Open Face Chinese (POFC). Most notably these probabilities are useful when making ...