Probability
- The CHANCE database
homepage.
This is a project which aims to help teach a course on probability,
focusing on critical reading of applications of probability cited in the
media.
- The CHANCE website includes a discussion of
lotteries,
including some interesting statistics.
- What
are the chances of that?!,
an article from the Washington Post describing some interesting
applications of probability.
This was handed out in class.
- John
Allen Paulos's monthly column.
- We discussed the probability that two people in a group have the same
birthday.
Here's a link to the