07214nam 22005535 450 991096200730332120250806165517.01-4612-4304-110.1007/978-1-4612-4304-5(CKB)3400000000090793(SSID)ssj0000808067(PQKBManifestationID)11514804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000808067(PQKBWorkID)10775257(PQKB)11660481(DE-He213)978-1-4612-4304-5(MiAaPQ)EBC3076287(PPN)238067394(EXLCZ)99340000000009079320121227d1994 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrProblems and Snapshots from the World of Probability /by Gunnar Blom, Lars Holst, Dennis Sandell1st ed. 1994.New York, NY :Springer New York :Imprint: Springer,1994.1 online resource (XII, 256 p.) "With 30 Illustrations."0-387-94161-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Welcoming problems -- 1.1 The friendly illiterate -- 1.2 Tourist with a short memory -- 1.3 The car and the goats -- 1.4 Patterns I -- 1.5 Classical random walk I -- 1.6 Number of walks until no shoes -- 1.7 Banach’s match box problem -- 1.8 The generous king -- 2. Basic probability theory I -- 2.1 Remarkable conditional probabilities -- 2.2 Exchangeability I -- 2.3 Exchangeability II -- 2.4 Combinations of events I -- 2.5 Problems concerning random numbers -- 2.6 Zero-one random variables I -- 3. Basic probability theory II -- 3.1 A trick for determining expectations -- 3.2 Probability generating functions -- 3.3 People at the corners of a triangle -- 3.4 Factorial generating functions -- 3.5 Zero-one random variables II -- 3.6 Combinations of events II -- 4. Topics from early days I -- 4.1 Cardano — a pioneer -- 4.2 Birth of probability -- 4.3 The division problem -- 4.4 Huygens’s second problem -- 4.5 Huygens’s fifth problem -- 4.6 Points when throwing several dice -- 4.7 Bernoulli and the game of tennis -- 5. Topics from early days II -- 5.1 History of some common distributions -- 5.2 Waldegrave’s problem I -- 5.3 Petersburg paradox -- 5.4 Rencontre I -- 5.5 Occupancy I -- 5.6 Stirling numbers of the second kind -- 5.7 Bayes’s theorem and Law of Succession -- 5.8 Ménage I -- 6. Random permutations -- 6.1 Runs I -- 6.2 Cycles in permutations -- 6.3 Stirling numbers of the first kind -- 6.4 Ascents in permutations -- 6.5 Eulerian numbers -- 6.6 Exceedances in permutations -- 6.7 Price fluctuations -- 6.8 Oscillations I -- 6.9 Oscillations II -- 7. Miscellaneous I -- 7.1 Birthdays -- 7.2 Poker -- 7.3 Negative binomial -- 7.4 Negative hypergeometric I -- 7.5 Coupon collecting I -- 7.6 Coupon collecting II -- 7.7 Ménage II -- 7.8 Rencontre II -- 8. Poisson approximation -- 8.1 Similar pairs and triplets -- 8.2 ALotto problem -- 8.3 Variation distance -- 8.4 Poisson-binomial -- 8.5 Rencontre III -- 8.6 Ménage III -- 8.7 Occupancy II -- 9. Miscellaneous II -- 9.1 Birthdays and similar triplets -- 9.2 Comparison of random numbers -- 9.3 Grouping by random division -- 9.4 Records I -- 9.5 Records II -- 9.6 A modification of blackjack -- 10. Random walks -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Classical random walk II -- 10.3 One absorbing barrier -- 10.4 The irresolute spider -- 10.5 Stars I -- 10.6 Closed stopping region -- 10.7 The reflection principle -- 10.8 Ballot problem -- 10.9 Range of a random walk -- 11. Urn models -- 11.1 Randomly filled urn -- 11.2 Pólya’s model I -- 11.3 Pólya’s model II -- 11.4 Pólya’s model III -- 11.5 Ehrenfest’s model I -- 11.6 Ehrenfest’s game -- 11.7 A pill problem -- 12. Cover times -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Complete graph -- 12.3 Linear finite graph -- 12.4 Polygon -- 12.5 A false conjecture -- 12.6 Stars II -- 12.7 Inequality for cover times -- 13. Markov chains -- 13.1 Review I -- 13.2 Review II -- 13.3 Random walk: two reflecting barriers -- 13.4 Ehrenfest’s model II -- 13.5 Doubly stochastic transition matrix -- 13.6 Card shuffling -- 13.7 Transition times for Markov chains -- 13.8 Reversible Markov chains -- 13.9 Markov chains with homesickness -- 14. Patterns -- 14.1 Runs II -- 14.2 Patterns II -- 14.3 Patterns III -- 14.4 A game for pirates -- 14.5 Penney’s game -- 14.6 Waldegrave’s problem II -- 14.7 How many patterns? -- 15. Embedding procedures -- 15.1 Drawings with replacement -- 15.2 Repetition of colours -- 15.3 Birthdays revisited -- 15.4 Coupon collecting III -- 15.5 Drawings without replacement -- 15.6 Socks in the laundry -- 15.7 Negative hypergeometric II -- 15.8 The first-to-r game I -- 16. Special topics -- 16.1 Exchangeability III -- 16.2 Martingales -- 16.3 Wald’s equation.-16.4 Birth control -- 16.5 The r-heads-in-advance game -- 16.6 Patterns IV -- 16.7 Random permutation of 1’s and (?1)’s -- 17. Farewell problems -- 17.1 The first-to-r game II -- 17.2 Random walk on a chessboard -- 17.3 Game with disaster -- 17.4 A rendezvous problem -- 17.5 Modified coin-tossing -- 17.6 Palindromes -- References.We, the authors of this book, are three ardent devotees of chance, or some­ what more precisely, of discrete probability. When we were collecting the material, we felt that one special pleasure of the field lay in its evocation of an earlier age: many of our 'probabilistic forefathers' were dexterous solvers of discrete problems. We hope that this pleasure will be transmitted to the readers. The first problem-book of a similar kind as ours is perhaps Mosteller's well-known Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability (1965). Possibly, our book is the second. The book contains 125 problems and snapshots from the world of prob­ ability. A 'problem' generally leads to a question with a definite answer. A 'snapshot' is either a picture or a bird's-eye view of some probabilistic field. The selection is, of course, highly subjective, and we have not even tried to cover all parts of the subject systematically. Limit theorems appear only seldom, for otherwise the book would have become unduly large. We want to state emphatically that we have not written a textbook in probability, but rather a book for browsing through when occupying an easy-chair. Therefore, ideas and results are often put forth without a machinery of formulas and derivations; the conscientious readers, who want to penetrate the whole clockwork, will soon have to move to their desks and utilize appropriate tools.ProbabilitiesProbability TheoryProbabilities.Probability Theory.519.2Blom Gunnarauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut536518Holst Larsauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autSandell Dennisauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962007303321Problems and Snapshots from the World of Probability4431812UNINA04295nam 22008293u 450 991096450550332120240514054945.01-315-43480-61-315-43481-4(CKB)2670000000166706(EBL)801213(OCoLC)772905997(SSID)ssj0000740497(PQKBManifestationID)12360736(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000740497(PQKBWorkID)10717545(PQKB)10629342(SSID)ssj0000660887(PQKBManifestationID)12322675(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000660887(PQKBWorkID)10707183(PQKB)11607479(MiAaPQ)EBC801213(EXLCZ)99267000000016670620141006d2011|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnthropologists in the SecurityScape[electronic resource] Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity1st ed.Walnut Creek Left Coast Press20111 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61132-012-7 Contents; Introduction; 1. The Winds of Politics, Change, and Social Science Transformation in a Military Research Institution; 2. Identity Management in the Federal Government: How an Andean Archaeologist Became a Social Scientist; 3. Public Anthropology and Multitrack Dialoguing in the Securityscape; 4. Blurring the Boundaries between Anthropology and Intelligence Analysis; 5. Intelligence Work: The Mundane World of High-Consequence Analysis; 6. Interdisciplinary Research in the National Laboratories; 7. Standing at the Crossroads of Anthropology, Public Health, and National Security8. Culture in/ Culture of the United States Naval Academy9. Teaching Culture at Marine Corps University; 10. Protecting the Past to Secure the Future: An Archaeologist Working for the Army; 11. Staying Safe: Aid Work and Security in Afghanistan; 12. On the Ethics of Graduated Disclosure in Contexts of War; 13. Ethical Considerations from the Study of Peacekeeping; 14. Hazardous Field Operations: Romanian-American Joint Humanitarian Training; 15. Retaining Intellectual Integrity: Introducing Anthropology to the National Security Community16. How Critical Should Critical Thinking Be? Teaching Soldiers in WartimeConclusion"" "Be All That You Can Be..." : The Anthropological Vocation in the Securityscape; Index; About the EditorsAs the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today''s security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-grained accounts of the complex and varied work of cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropologists and archaeologists doing security-related work AnthropologyEthicsSociologyAnthropological ethicsResearchAnthropologyAdministrative agenciesIntelligence serviceAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCAnthropology - GeneralHILCCAnthropology.Ethics.Sociology.Anthropological ethicsResearch.Anthropology.Administrative agencies.Intelligence service.AnthropologySocial SciencesAnthropology - General301.072Albro Robert1854389Marcus George142789McNamara Laura A1854390Schoch-Spana Monica1854391AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910964505503321Anthropologists in the SecurityScape4451583UNINA