Scientific American

This mathematician proved a brilliant theorem to justify his social awkwardness

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
IEEE

Light Exact Expressions for the Sum of Weibull Random Variables

Abstract: Sums of Weibull variates arise in several communications fields, such as optical, mobile, and radar systems. However, due to the intricate task of evaluating the Weibull sums, only a few ...

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...
Frontiers

Critical Dependence of Butterflies on a Non-native Host Plant in the Urban Tropics

1 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 2 Nature Society (Singapore), Singapore, Singapore We consulted 30 local butterfly experts (including A. J.) ...

How To Speed Up the Search for Cures Through a Change in Probability Theory

If the FDA follows through with the proposed guidelines, and they are not fatally twisted by pressure from the medical ...
IEEE

Product of Squared SR Random Variables: Application to Satellite Communication

Abstract: We investigate the problem associated with the statistics of the product of two squared Shadowed Rician (SR) random variables (RVs). Both SR RVs are independent and nonidentically ...